Top 107 Quotes by Dick Dale

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

Springsteen - he's the Lord God.

That's what my music does for me. It makes people happy. When I play, I thank the Lord I've never seen someone walk away from a Dick Dale dance not having a good time. That's what it's all about.

Gene Krupa was my big hero, and I used to play on my mother's flour cans and sugar cans with the kitchen knives, listening to the big bands on my dad's records. Gene Krupa and Harry James.

I know what it's like to wash my clothes in a Chevron station.

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

I live like in the days of Daniel Boone, hauling water by hand. I used to have two Rolls-Royces. Now I got one. It's got four flat tires; the trunk is open, and a rat lives inside it.

If I ever wrote a book, people would never believe it.

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.

What I play now isn't surf music. It's too powerful. I used to go through paper bags; now I go through brick walls. I play hard.