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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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"I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything."

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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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"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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"I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys."
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"The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown."
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"I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people."
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"I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me."
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"You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation."
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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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"My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge."
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"Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is."
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