Gene Krupa was my big hero, and I used to play on my mother's flour cans and sugar cans with the kitchen knives, listening to the big bands on my dad's records. Gene Krupa and Harry James.
More Quotes by Dick Dale
Every song is like a painting.
You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way.
I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.
Surfers were the ones who named all my songs. They'd yell out the names, and we just kept 'em.
They're putting cement dust into cattle feed to make the cows heavier; the FDA knows all about it.