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I like to say, 'I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.'

~Dick Dale

Topics: Every Hit Instruments Like Music People Play Say Show Type

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I enjoy living like a hermit, but I cannot live like a hermit.

~Dick Dale

Topics: Cannot Enjoy Hermit Like Live Living

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If I ever wrote a book, people would never believe it.

~Dick Dale

Topics: Believe Book Ever Never People Would Wrote

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I'd rather be a Jack-of-all-trades than master of one. If I became an icon, where my whole life was music, I would probably have become a vegetable. I wouldn't be able to have all these talents I have today and be an interesting 'character.'

~Dick Dale

Topics: Able Became Become Character Icon Interesting Life Master Music Rather Talents Than Today Vegetable Where Whole Would

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I've never taken a lesson in my life, and I can play every instrument there is. I play by ear, but I can fool anybody into thinking I went to some conservatory of music.

~Dick Dale

Topics: Anybody Conservatory Ear Every Fool Instrument Lesson Life Music My Life Never Play Some Taken Thinking I Can

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I do not play to musicians. I play to the people.

~Dick Dale

Topics: Musicians People Play

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What I play now isn't surf music. It's too powerful. I used to go through paper bags; now I go through brick walls. I play hard.

~Dick Dale

Topics: Bags Brick Go Hard Music Now Paper Play Powerful Surf Through Too Used Walls

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I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if you sell so many jars of Noxzema skin cream, we'll sell you a ukulele. So I went out and banged on doors in the snow in Quincy, Massachusetts, where I was raised, and I sold the skin cream.

~Dick Dale

Topics: About Ad Cream Doors Kid Little Little Kid Magazine Many Massachusetts Old Out Raised Reading Said Sell Skin Snow Sold Twelve Ukulele Where Years You I Was Raised

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When my guitar was growling, playing surf beat, you could hear it; you could feel it.

~Dick Dale

Topics: Beat Could Feel Guitar Hear Playing Surf You

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I'm going to make people happy. I'm going to make them forget about their cancer. I'm going to make them forget about their diabetes.

~Dick Dale

Topics: About Cancer Diabetes Forget Going Happy Make People Them

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: May 4th, 1937

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