Best quotes by Dick Dale on Me

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• ‟ I surfed Dana Point, San Clemente, and of course Huntington Beach. Every morning, you could find me at the hot water pipe.

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• ‟ 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.

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

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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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• ‟ Kids don't see me as an oldies person when I go out on stage. They see me as an energy force.

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• ‟ 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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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.

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

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• ‟ 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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