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. Dick Dale Read Quote
What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They’re not your blood. They’re not your mind. You get in an argument. Dick Dale Read Quote
I don’t live with the ‘right’ people. I don’t want to. I don’t want to live with the rich in Beverly Hills or walk the streets of Hollywood. I want to go to K-mart and get good deals. Dick Dale Read Quote
People who have witnessed all the years of me playing, they bring their kids and say, ‘I used to see this guy when I was fourteen!’ Dick Dale Read Quote
In the Shao Lin temple, they never allow you to touch the skin of a drum until you can tongue what you’re going to play. Dick Dale Read Quote
Hendrix was the bass player for Little Richard. We were both left-handed, but we would use a right-handed guitar held upside down and backwards. He developed my slides and my riffs. In fact he used to say, and this is documented, ‘I patterned my style after Dick Dale.’ Dick Dale Read Quote
I used to surf up in Ventura County at Silver Strand; plus, I’ve played up there many times. Dick Dale Read Quote
