Dick Dale

“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.”

“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.”

“Dick Dale don't surf no more.”

“I answer number one to myself, because I know myself. I answer to my fans, because they know me. My mother knows me and God knows me, and that's where it's at.”

“I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's what music does.”

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

“I refuse to bring my son up in a world corrupt as it is now.”