Dick Dale Quotes

I just knew I had to play the guitar.

I play a little but also like to keep the guitars around for when friends come over.

I am an old-school guitar player. I'm not an '80s-'90s sort of shredder who plays a million notes a minute. I am way more '60s-'70s kind of style, and I write very '60s-'70s.

I'm so used to knowing what to do with an electric guitar and amplifier, but with an acoustic guitar, it's different, but I still have an amp and a whole bunch of pedals.

In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I got an electric guitar.

I just started exploring the guitar and seeing where it would take me.

All my songs were made at the end of the neck, 'farmer's corner' chords.

A swollen belly is a lot of pressure on the back.

I stretched my whole career - it didn't save me when I blew my back, and of course, that's where the whole things of DDP Yoga comes from.

My chops have always been sort of weak, because the right side of my body was paralyzed a little bit. It was very limiting. I have to design stuff I can play, and it took me a year and a half to figure out how to hold a guitar pick.

It took me a while to get an electric guitar and a bass and amps and stuff. Playing the acoustic guitar was much easier and more affordable. But I was always listening to the radio and was interested in all the rock and pop music.

I know how to play the acoustic guitar, but I'm learning to play the electric guitar now. I'm sure it will be a wonderful experience.

It's rare for me to sit in a room with my guitar and feel like I can't stop playing, because it just sounds so good.

I don't like to be caught without a pick.

Sometimes I put too much pressure on my back.

I write songs, I play a guitar and that's it.

I started playing guitar when I was 14.

As a guitar player, playing instrumental music is a blast.

Back in the Eighties, I used to write ballads on my acoustic guitar, so it seems very natural to me to go back to a little singing.

Something people might not know about me is, I like playing the guitar.

I've experimented with so many different sounds, it's difficult to say what the Donovan sound really is, but it's essentially my voice and guitars.

Some people play steel string beautifully, but I'm not exactly a world-class picker.

I play acoustic when I need to play acoustic, and I say I'm probably a better acoustic player than I am electric.

My back is broken because of the last pregnancy.

I'm an ardent tennis player. I'm like an overenthusiastic child out there and I've damaged my back. It's not that it's crippling pain, more mental anguish.