Dick Dale Quotes

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

Performing music live, there's a certain magic to it.

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music to please my fans.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody.

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.

So you can have your program, but you also have to be ready to change it immediately because there are certain kinds of people who like certain kinds of songs and they like - some people want to dance when you come out, some people just want to be intimate with you. So you kind of feel your way through a show.

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.

When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.

When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.

Most of the people I hang out with who sing love it, and they just want to do it until they die. I still look forward to the performances. And believe it or not, they're all kind of different. Even though you sing the same songs, and maybe you go to the same venues, it just feels completely different every time you go on stage.

I think all the music I do, which ties together, as far as I'm concerned, is fun and entertaining.

I'm really looking forward to it because it will give me the opportunity to do the whole other kind of approach to the music live that I haven't had a chance to do. and I think is important for me to do.

I've always enjoyed playing live onstage.

I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I've gotten a hard time about it, but I love to be funny onstage.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.

I think I'm more entertainer than musician. I like to get with the crowd, make this night special for them.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to the audience, to let them know what it would be like to be inside my head.