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Dick Dale
May 4, 1937 -
Nationality: American
Category: Musician
Subcategory: American Musician

Every song is like a painting.

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

You shouldn't even be writing this story if you haven't heard me play live. You can't write with the passion you receive until you see a Dick Dale concert.

   

I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people.

   

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.

   

People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.

   

I always felt people should live with animals.

   

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

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.

   

I became stereotyped.

   

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