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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
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"My father started me singing in church."
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"Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well."
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"My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy."
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"My father loved people, children and pets."
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"My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.""
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"They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father."
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"My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves."
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"My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid."
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"In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives."
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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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"I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards."
Play

"Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier."
Power

"Every song is like a painting."
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"I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it."
Music

"When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards."
People

"As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that's what it's all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that."
Music

"I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me."
Father

"I've got holes in my guitar."
Guitar

"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."
Time
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