Hendrix was the bass player for Little Richard. We were both left-handed, but we would use a right-handed guitar held upside down and backwards. He developed my slides and my riffs. In fact he used to say, and this is documented, 'I patterned my style after Dick Dale.'
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.