I've been called 'the father of loud.'
From Dick Dale
If you ask me what I'd rather be doing, well, I'd rather be home in California, watching TV, polishing my tools and working around the ranch.
I may play the same songs night to night, but I never play them the same way.
I like to say, 'I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.'
Whatever you do, don't take shortcuts. It's great advice to take and live by.
I enjoy living like a hermit, but I cannot live like a hermit.
If I ever wrote a book, people would never believe it.
My father never put me on his lap and said he loved me.
I'd rather be a Jack-of-all-trades than master of one. If I became an icon, where my whole life was music, I would probably have become a vegetable. I wouldn't be able to have all these talents I have today and be an interesting 'character.'
I've never taken a lesson in my life, and I can play every instrument there is. I play by ear, but I can fool anybody into thinking I went to some conservatory of music.
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