Dick Dale

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

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(8 votes)   Every song is like a painting.

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(5 votes)   I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.

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(5 votes)   I always felt people should live with animals.

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(4 votes)   I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.

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(4 votes)   I became stereotyped.

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(4 votes)   I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.

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(3 votes)   You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way.

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(2 votes)   Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.

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(11 votes)   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.

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(5 votes)   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.

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(4 votes)   Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.

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(4 votes)   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.

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(4 votes)   Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

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(4 votes)   I called it Rockabilly 'cause I was rocking the strums, which you're not supposed to do.

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