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Top 30 Dick Dale Quotes (2025 Update)

Dick Dale Quote: “Every song is like a painting.”

1. “Every song is like a painting.”

Dick Dale Quote: “I always felt people should live with animals.”

2. “I always felt people should live with animals.”

Dick Dale Quote: “There’s a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.”

3. “There’s a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.”

Dick Dale Quote: “I’ll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I’m gonna tell you how to build a clock.”

4. “I’ll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I’m gonna tell you how to build a clock.”

Dick Dale Quote: “I’m a perfectionist. I’m not going to cheat the people.”

5. “I’m a perfectionist. I’m not going to cheat the people.”

Dick Dale Quote: “I’m constantly being influenced by the soul that’s directly in front of me.”

6. “I’m constantly being influenced by the soul that’s directly in front of me.”

Dick Dale Quote: “As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that’s what it’s all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that.”

7. “As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that’s what it’s all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that.”

Dick Dale Quote: “I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.”

8. “I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.”

Dick Dale Quote: “I don’t play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.”

9. “I don’t play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.”

Dick Dale Quote: “I’ve got holes in my guitar.”

10. “I’ve got holes in my guitar.”

Dick Dale Quote: “I’ll never die. I’ll just explode, right there before your eyes, onstage.”

11. “I’ll never die. I’ll just explode, right there before your eyes, onstage.”

Dick Dale Quote: “I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.”

12. “I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.”

Dick Dale Quote: “My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.”

13. “My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.”

Dick Dale Quote: “Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.”

14. “Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.”

Dick Dale Quote: “When I start playing I’m just a rollercoaster of sound. I don’t know what’s coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.”

15. “When I start playing I’m just a rollercoaster of sound. I don’t know what’s coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.”

Dick Dale Quote: “The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.”

16. “The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.”

Dick Dale Quote: “Music is an attitude. It’s a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That’s always been my theory.”

17. “Music is an attitude. It’s a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That’s always been my theory.”

Dick Dale Quote: “You can’t eat fish. It’s 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.”

18. “You can’t eat fish. It’s 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.”

Dick Dale Quote: “Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they’re going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt.”

19. “Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they’re going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt.”

Dick Dale Quote: “My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.”

20. “My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.”

Dick Dale Quote: “My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.”

21. “My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.”

Dick Dale Quote: “I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked ’em on the side of the head.”

22. “I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked ’em on the side of the head.”

Dick Dale Quote: “I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.”

23. “I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.”

Dick Dale Quote: “Jimi was a good guy ’til he got into drugs. That’s the way it is. I just tell it like it is.”

24. “Jimi was a good guy ’til he got into drugs. That’s the way it is. I just tell it like it is.”

Dick Dale Quote: “People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.”

25. “People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.”

Dick Dale Quote: “My son now is 22 months old, he’s been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He’s been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he’s been on the drums. He’s got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.”

26. “My son now is 22 months old, he’s been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He’s been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he’s been on the drums. He’s got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.”

Dick Dale Quote: “I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.”

27. “I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.”

Dick Dale Quote: “I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn’t do it.”

28. “I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn’t do it.”

Dick Dale Quote: “I became stereotyped.”

29. “I became stereotyped.”

Dick Dale Quote: “I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I’ve played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.”

30. “I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I’ve played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.”

Dick Dale Quote: “I don’t claim to be a musician, I didn’t go to Julliard.”

31. “I don’t claim to be a musician, I didn’t go to Julliard.”

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