Top 107 Quotes by Dick Dale

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

I like to say, 'I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.'

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

My mind never left 20, because once it does, that's when you start to die.

Earthlings are confused, insecure. And some Earthlings have no heritage: that's what leads them to kill each other and rob 7-11 stores.

My father never put me on his lap and said he loved me.

When I first played the guitar without plugging it into an amplifier, the people at Fender were blown away. They couldn't believe the sound. I said, 'See, gentlemen, the world is no longer flat.'

I answer number one to myself, because I know myself. I answer to my fans, because they know me. My mother knows me and God knows me, and that's where it's at.

When I come onstage, I'm exploding.

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