Musician Quotes

The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.

It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.

I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling.

I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her.

I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take up a lot of his valuable time, then he deserves a few words back, or even a phone call as I have done on a few occasions.

Good acting is consistency of performance.

A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.

I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.

I've got holes in my guitar.

I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.

I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.

I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.

I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.

I told them if were going to do it were going to do it right, I'm not leaving 'til it's done. My wife, child and I slept in the studio. We cut these raw.

I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.

I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.

I called it Rockabilly 'cause I was rocking the strums, which you're not supposed to do.

I became stereotyped.

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.

I always felt people should live with animals.

I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt.

Every song is like a painting.