Dick Dale Quotes

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.

The way that I live my life is on spontaneity.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

I'm flying by the seat of my pants, never creating with a thought to what's up ahead!

I don't have the same restrictions that other people do because I never painted myself into a corner. I've always done things that didn't necessarily fit the form. I've never felt limited in that respect in terms of songwriting.

I don't have a daily routine at all.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

I don't like to make my life like a book.

The less routine the more life.

I think that what I'm attracted to is people who are wild. But the self-destructive side comes out of the wild side. The wildness is very different from me. That's why I think I like it.

Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself. I think normality is something that makes everything very static, and I try to make my days, my daily routines, as uneven and rich as possible.

You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.

I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

I don't like routine and I don't like rules.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

I like to experiment, and my life has been eventful.

I'm a big believer in spontaneity.

I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in my life. It's like, 'Hold up - that ain't feel good. That felt good.' And that's how I look at anything I do.

There's no formula.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

Records don't have to be perfect. Everyone doesn't have to move left when everyone else moves left. I love hearing the mistakes.

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.