Dick Dale Quotes

Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder? No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

You can batter your guitar, and it won't distort too much, which is important for me because I play with my hands a lot - I don't really play with picks.

I may have destroyed world culture, but MTV wouldn't exist today if it wasn't for me.

You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

Rock'n'roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything.

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

Very few guitarists play nylon-string. They don't know how to get the sound out of them. That's something I've spent a lot of time on.

I just play my guitar and push my songs and I'd like to keep it quiet.

I know it is one of the most important instruments and inventions, the electric guitar, to me, since television or movies or anything like that.

I think people were looking for something new in the EDM scene and found it in my music.

Hip-hop is just bombarded with a lot of materialistic stuff. When a group like us with more creativity comes out, I think it will make some kind of change.

With Soapkills, we were lucky. We started at a time of transition where things were not ready, nothing was available.

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

Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.

The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.

You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.

Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?

People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.

The ideal country in a flat world is the one with no natural resources, because countries with no natural resources tend to dig inside themselves. They try to tap the energy, entrepreneurship, creativity, and intelligence of their own people-men and women-rather than drill an oil well.

I was immediately taken with Geoff Muldaur's rich soulful voice, masterful phrasing and guitar playing when I first heard him.

When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone.