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"I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through."
"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."
"I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing."
"You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal."
Explore more quotes by Dick Dale
"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."
"I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me."
"I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys."
"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 can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation."
"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."
"Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer."
"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."
"Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier."
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