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Dick Dale
Dick Dale
American Musician
Born: May 4, 1937
Every Guitar Me Music People You
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There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around. Dick Dale
Love Buy Saying You Dog Pet Someone Feed Around Forever Love You Want To Love Keep
Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier. Dick Dale
Heavy Metal Guitar Father Power First Says Guitar Player Magazine Metal Up Blowing Heavy Creating Player Amplifier
People ask about love. Real love. I was never in love; the people around me didn't love me. They were just along for the ride. Dick Dale
Love Me Love Me People Ride About Never Along Around Real Were Real Love Just Ask
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
Me Father Met Gave Guru He Became Fender Leo Who Second
I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard. Dick Dale
Claim Musician Go
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
Time Me Engineer Impress Every Every Time Tricks Tried Kinds Some Never Allowed Studio Felt Limited How Sound Going Capture Play
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
People Sit Sign Never Know Talk Sound Coming Rollercoaster Just Afterwards Next Start Playing
I told them if were going to do it were going to do it right, I'm not leaving 'til it's done. My wife, child and I slept in the studio. We cut these raw. Dick Dale
Wife Slept Studio Raw Leaving Were Child Done Going Them Cut Right
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
Stage Side Once Someone Threw Head Off Whacked Maniac Mean Used Show
I've got holes in my guitar. Dick Dale
Guitar Got Holes
I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection. Dick Dale
Had Almost Because Leg Infection Amputated
You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation. Dick Dale
You World Eat Per Counting Over Parts Fish Radiation Million
My music is more native than intricate or technical. Dick Dale
Music Intricate More Than Native Technical
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
Music People Guitar Pain Pleasure Shake Feet Make Makes Does Move Scream Sensuality Bodies
My mind never left 20, because once it does, that's when you start to die. Dick Dale
You Mind Once Never Because Does Left Die Start
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
You Man Too Much Stage Too Out Bad Cash Guys Johnny Johnny Cash Vegas Look Around Making Go Moving Cut Us Much Used Played
I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in London. Dick Dale
Made Once Paper System Out London Like Blew Hall Sound Were Tissue Albert Royal
Earthlings are confused, insecure. And some Earthlings have no heritage: that's what leads them to kill each other and rob 7-11 stores. Dick Dale
Confused Heritage Other Insecure Some Leads Rob Stores Them Each
I've been performing since 1955. I'm going to have to keep performing till I die because I'm not going to die in some rocking chair with a big ol' beer belly. Dick Dale
Beer Big Some Since Performing Because Till Been Rocking Rocking Chair Die Going Chair Keep Belly
I make jokes because humor is the greatest healing factor that there is. Dick Dale
Jokes Healing Humor Factor Make Because Greatest
I smashed my tailbone and couldn't sit for five years, and I broke my clavicle because I thought I was a great surfer, and of course, I could be a great snowboarder, too. Man, was I wiped out! Dick Dale
Great Man Thought Sit Too Broke Out Could Wiped Smashed Course Because Years Five
I don't like to use the word 'fans;' I call them 'Dick Dale music lovers.' Dick Dale
Music Word Fans Like Call Lovers Them Use
I'm not one of these guys who is dedicated to playing or performing - that's just one facet of my life. Dick Dale
Life My Life Facet Guys Performing Just Just One Dedicated Who Playing
When I come onstage, I'm exploding. Dick Dale
Onstage Come Exploding
If you ask me what I'd rather be doing, well, I'd rather be home in California, watching TV, polishing my tools and working around the ranch. Dick Dale
Home Me You Tools Ranch TV Rather California Well Around Polishing Doing Ask Working Watching Watching Tv
I like to say, 'I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.' Dick Dale
Music People Every Type Say Like Instruments Hit Show Play
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