KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Dick Dale Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Dick Dale

Showing 51-60 of 107 Quotes by Dick Dale

My music is more native than intricate or technical.

~Dick Dale

Topics: Intricate More Music Native Technical Than

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


When I started surfing, you'd hear this neat rumbling sound when you took off and go for the drop, and when the wave is lipping up over the top of you, it makes this hissing sound.

~Dick Dale

Topics: Drop Go Hear Makes Neat Off Over Sound Started Surfing Took Top Up Wave You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Surfers were the ones who named all my songs. They'd yell out the names, and we just kept 'em.

~Dick Dale

Topics: Just Kept Named Names Out Songs Were Who Yell

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I have all the rhythm in my left hand, and I use the rhythms that Gene Krupa did on his drums.

~Dick Dale

Topics: Did Drums Gene Hand His Left Rhythm Rhythms Use

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I thought of Gene Krupa's drumming, his staccato drumming. I went and put 'Misirlou' to that rhythm.

~Dick Dale

Topics: Drumming Gene His Put Rhythm Thought

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's what music does.

~Dick Dale

Topics: Bodies Does Feet Guitar Make Makes Move Music Pain People Pleasure Scream Sensuality Shake

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The Stratocaster is like the Rolls-Royce. It can never be surpassed.

~Dick Dale

Topics: Like Never

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


My mind never left 20, because once it does, that's when you start to die.

~Dick Dale

Topics: Because Die Does Left Mind Never Once Start You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I know what it's like to wash my clothes in a Chevron station.

~Dick Dale

Topics: Clothes Know Like Station Wash

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


When I played with Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings in Vegas, the guys used to go, 'Dick, cut it out, man! You're moving around too much on this stage. You're making us look bad!'

~Dick Dale

Topics: Around Bad Cash Cut Go Guys Johnny Johnny Cash Look Making Man Moving Much Out Played Stage Too Too Much Us Used Vegas You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: May 4th, 1937

Links

Find Dick Dale on Amazon

Related Authors

Kurt Cobain
Bob Dylan
Eminem
Jimi Hendrix
Jim Morrison
Tupac Shakur
Frank Sinatra
Frank Zappa

Popular Authors

Anita Hill Elbert Hubbard Yayoi Kusama Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Post Malone Prince Gordon Ramsay Taylor Swift

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes

1861 - Walter Rauschenbusch

1880 - Damon Runyon

1895 - Buster Keaton

1903 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner

1914 - Brendan Gill

1916 - George Sidney

1918 - Kenichi Fukui

1923 - Charlton Heston

1928 - Alvin Toffler

Birthdays on October 4th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Famous Happiness Legal New Year's Peace Poetry Positive Wisdom