Dick Dale Quotes

One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma.

I am a cross between Carl Perkins and Led Zeppelin.

I would say that I'm very proud that Metallica plays heavy music - but equally proud that we don't think like a heavy-metal band.

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock.

You know, Rolling Stones songs all sound kind of the same.

Fall Out Boy never pretended that we were anything but pop-rock.

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

I was a born rock n' roll sax player.

Blues is a big part of rock and roll. The best rock and roll got its birth in the blues. You hear it in Little Richard and Chuck Berry.

The other guys in Hootie were into rock. I brought the country influence.

We've always been just an American rock n' roll band.

I started as a jazz musician, not a singer, then I became a rock 'n' roll artist with Aphrodite's Child.

To me, a lot people really get wrapped up in the technical side of metal and what's metal and what's not and more double-kick and more blast beats and more technicality, but for me, I'm a song person. So I think you can write good songs in any type of style of rock and any type of style of metal, and that's kind of what I'm a fan of.

I've always really been a big fan of rock music. I wanted to record rock music when I was 14 or 15, but I was too young; it would have been ridiculous.

We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.

In my early days, I sang rock stuff, but the career didn't kick until '67.

I've always considered rock 'n' roll, the music and the dancing, an art form.

When Chuck Berry came along, what he did was more rock & roll than it was blues. It was more exciting. He was like the next step. I thought his first single, 'Maybellene,' was the greatest song in the world.

We've always imagined ourselves as a rock band. We've always been a rock band playing the wrong instruments.

I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n' roll - that was music to me. Everything else was boring.

I like that outlaw crossover rock 'n' roll-country sound.

As the years go by, I realize how unique a style rock music is and how delicate you have to be with it sometimes; otherwise, you turn it into pop music or progressive rock or something else.

If you actually go back and listen to my first album, there are some things on there that are kind of rock 'n' roll.

I consider myself more of a rock 'n' roll fiddler.