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I do not play to musicians. I play to the people.

They're putting cement dust into cattle feed to make the cows heavier; the FDA knows all about it.

What I play now isn't surf music. It's too powerful. I used to go through paper bags; now I go through brick walls. I play hard.

From Dick Dale

I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if you sell so many jars of Noxzema skin cream, we'll sell you a ukulele. So I went out and banged on doors in the snow in Quincy, Massachusetts, where I was raised, and I sold the skin cream.

From Dick Dale

When my guitar was growling, playing surf beat, you could hear it; you could feel it.

From Dick Dale

I'm going to make people happy. I'm going to make them forget about their cancer. I'm going to make them forget about their diabetes.

From Dick Dale

What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They're not your blood. They're not your mind. You get in an argument.

From Dick Dale