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"I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar."
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"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."
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"T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around."
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"On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me."
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"As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with."
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"I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs."
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"For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion."
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"The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown."
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"When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting."
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"In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again."
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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."
Passion
"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."
Painting
"The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown."
Guitar
"I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me."
Soul
"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."
Time
"People just loved the sound because I kept it simple."
People
"I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul."
Music
"I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it."
Music
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