“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.” KindPlayFeltSoundStudiosTricksAll KindsCaptureEngineersImpress Author:Dick Dale
“I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.” I CanPlayInstrumentsHornsTrumpetsKeyboardsHorny Author:Dick Dale
“I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.” PeopleGivingGrewGive MeLionsHelplessMonkeysDefenselessJaguarsCheetahs Author:Dick Dale
“I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.” FatherMetsGuruAmplifiers Author:Dick Dale
“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.” MeanShowsUsedSidesStageUsed To BeEmsTwo SidesManiacsFirecracker Author:Dick Dale
“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.” WayAsksClockAsk Me Author:Dick Dale
“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.” HumansPersonsHuman BeingsSimpleAttitudeStupidTheoryMusic IsAverageSensationsAverage PersonKeep It Simple Author:Dick Dale
“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.” SoundDirectEarsGutsUnclesTrumpetsSoulfulArmstrong Author:Dick Dale
“We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he is attached to nothing, is frequently grandly mistaken, being bound to a thousand things, unknown to himself.” ThinkingKnowsKnow HowTakenObjectsThousandBoundsMistaken Author:Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
