Dick Dale Quotes

The music I make, it's so hard. I listen to it 100,000 times before it even drops.

The whole thing with recording is you have to know when to turn off the tape machine and just stop recording because you want to keep fixing, fixing, fixing, you know?

There were times I didn't think we would ever make it, even when we were cranking two out a year.

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.

You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.

Well, I am obsessive about my work. I throw myself in all the way.

Whatever I do in life, my parents always taught me to focus on that, and they never let me quit.

When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it.

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.

We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.

The bar was very high-we had to really make sure that we got what we really wanted, that it was a real finished album. We weren't going to give up until we got that.

When I'm in the studio, I stay in the studio, like, sometimes 20 hours out the day.

I remember hearing Will Smith, back when he was just a rapper, saying, 'When all the other rap stars are in bed, I'm practicing my rapping.' I try to be like that. There is always something to improve.

I don't try to be difficult. I just care so much about these albums that I get crazed sometimes when I'm making them.

When I was younger, I'd be in the studio three days straight to get something right, and my manager would be like, 'Go home!' Even now, I still sleep in the studio sometimes, but I can't do it quite as often. I've got gigs; I can't have my hobo beard! But if you love what you're doing, you can't stop. It's obsessive.

It takes so much energy and time to make one song perfect.

When you record an album in six days, you don't have time to work out a lot of stuff.

Whatever I turn my hand to, I put in the effort to be the best.

When you choose the hard things, it takes longer than you think to get it done, and if you choose the hard thing and have a very particular way you want to do them and are uncompromising in that, then sometimes it takes even longer.

Making records is hard work.

You can't get tired in the studio. It's really tough. But you just gotta keep on going.

Do it right or don't do it at all. That comes from my mom. If there's something I want to do, I'm one of those people that won't be satisfied until I get it done. If I'm trying to sing something and I can't get it, I'm going to keep at it until I get where I want it.

People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because they haven't accomplished what they wanted to on the first go-round. They're willing to do it twenty times, if necessary. There's an illusion that the good people can easily do something, and it's not necessarily true. They're just determined to do it right. I was impressed by hearing one of the women at Radcliffe talk about writing a poem, how many revisions a single poem sometimes has to go through -- fifty or sixty revisions to come out with a poem sixteen lines long.