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I became stereotyped.
I've got holes in my guitar.
Dick Dale don't surf no more.
Every song is like a painting.
Drums were my first instrument.
Springsteen - he's the Lord God.
When I come onstage, I'm exploding.
I've been called 'the father of loud.'
I'm dedicated to touring the rest of my life.
I always felt people should live with animals.
I do not play to musicians. I play to the people.
My music is more native than intricate or technical.
People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.
I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people.
My father never put me on his lap and said he loved me.
I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.
You know what the doctors call me? 'The Cancer Warrior.'
My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.
I refuse to bring my son up in a world corrupt as it is now.
I try to read the audience, see what they're in the mood for.
The ultimate guitar players can play every scale in the book.
I enjoy living like a hermit, but I cannot live like a hermit.
I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.
I know what it's like to wash my clothes in a Chevron station.
Nothing could capture the sound of Dick Dale - he was too loud.
I actually first picked up an ukulele before I picked up a guitar.
The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.
Surf music is played through a Showman amp with a Stratocaster guitar.
I make jokes because humor is the greatest healing factor that there is.
I'll never die. I'll just explode, right there before your eyes, onstage.
My mind never left 20, because once it does, that's when you start to die.
I don't like to use the word 'fans;' I call them 'Dick Dale music lovers.'
I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.
My philosophy is that on a scale of 1 to 10, I will go to 15. No matter what!
Whatever you do, don't take shortcuts. It's great advice to take and live by.
When my guitar was growling, playing surf beat, you could hear it; you could feel it.
Music is nothing but a door opener to meet families and their children and the elderly.
The Musicians Hall of Fame is chosen by thousands of your peers. So it's the real thing.
I called it Rockabilly 'cause I was rocking the strums, which you're not supposed to do.
I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.
Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.
I used to surf up in Ventura County at Silver Strand; plus, I've played up there many times.
Kids don't see me as an oldies person when I go out on stage. They see me as an energy force.
Surfers were the ones who named all my songs. They'd yell out the names, and we just kept 'em.
I have all the rhythm in my left hand, and I use the rhythms that Gene Krupa did on his drums.
Surf music is actually just the sound of the waves played on a guitar: that wet, splashy sound.
When I play, I don't cheat. I played for 490,000 in Berlin, and I'll play just as hard for 100.
You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.
Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.
I like to say, 'I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.'