128 Quotes by Dick Dale

I answer number one to myself, because I know myself. I answer to my fans, because they know me. My mother knows me and God knows me, and that's where it's at.

My father never put me on his lap and said he loved me.

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

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.

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.

Nothing could capture the sound of Dick Dale - he was too loud.

I try to read the audience, see what they're in the mood for.

Gene Krupa was my big hero, and I used to play on my mother's flour cans and sugar cans with the kitchen knives, listening to the big bands on my dad's records. Gene Krupa and Harry James.

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.