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" The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown. "

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" There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around. "

" You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way. "

" Every song is like a painting. "

" I make jokes because humor is the greatest healing factor that there is. "

" I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul. "

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

" Surf music is actually just the sound of the waves played on a guitar: that wet, splashy sound. "

" When I was 18 at the Santa Ana River Jetty is where I put my first board in the water that I ever got from Joe Quigg. I was just riding the whitewater in, and I was just in heaven. "

" Little Richard, he'd say, 'Oh Dick Dale! You have luscious lips!' "

" Dick Dale don't surf no more. "

" As I'd go out learning to surf, I'd feel the power of waves coming over my body. It's like you're with God. "

" You shouldn't even be writing this story if you haven't heard me play live. You can't write with the passion you receive until you see a Dick Dale concert. "

" I actually first picked up an ukulele before I picked up a guitar. "

" I've been performing since 1955. I'm going to have to keep performing till I die because I'm not going to die in some rocking chair with a big ol' beer belly. "

" I learned everything by ear and played all the different instruments. So then I was able to find a guitar. That was, like, in the seventh grade. And then I didn't know how to put my fingers on all the different strings, so I had to figure out how to do it upside down and backwards, and I still play that way today. "

" 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.' "

" My father never put me on his lap and said he loved me. "

" I don't live with the 'right' people. I don't want to. I don't want to live with the rich in Beverly Hills or walk the streets of Hollywood. I want to go to K-mart and get good deals. "

" My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk. "

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

" Whatever you do, don't take shortcuts. It's great advice to take and live by. "