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Dick Dale

"My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut."

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"My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut."

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"Sound.Noisethe air employs.Melodies sweet.Tweet, tweet, tweet.Soft. Loud.A roaring crowd.Cluck. Caw. Crow.Tet, tet. Tis, tis.Guttural growl.Harrowing howl.Drip, drip, drip.Tap, tap, tap.Moan and groan.Endless drone.Ding, dang, dong.A church bell song.Vibrations in my earto hear.Sound."

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Asa Don Brown

"Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes."

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"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."

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"My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room."

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Asa Don Brown

"I think I sound like Barry White."

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Asa Don Brown

"If you're not Prince, you're never going to sound like Prince."

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Asa Don Brown

"For instance, if you're playing a record with drums - horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns and slip it in at certain times."

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"I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do."

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Asa Don Brown

"This is my second bass that Paul built me. There were some changes that were made. Sometimes I think of changes that could be made having to do with both the sound and the feel. It's definitely a beautiful instrument."

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Asa Don Brown

"I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around."

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"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."
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"I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul."
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"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."
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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."
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"The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown."
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"I always felt people should live with animals."
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"You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way."
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