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Dick Dale

"I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs."

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"I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs."

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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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"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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"I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me."
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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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"I always felt people should live with animals."
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"I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people."
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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."
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