128 Quotes by Dick Dale

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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