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"My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk."
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"Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet."

"I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants."

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"There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around."

"I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul."

"I told them if were going to do it were going to do it right, I'm not leaving 'til it's done. My wife, child and I slept in the studio. We cut these raw."

"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."

"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."

"You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way."

"I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards."

"I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys."

"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."
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