Top 107 Quotes by Dick Dale

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

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.'

When I was 18 at the Santa Ana River Jetty is where I put my first board in the water that I ever got from Joe Quigg. I was just riding the whitewater in, and I was just in heaven.

I do not play to musicians. I play to the people.

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.

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

People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.

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