Surf Rock Quotes

My first two records were influenced by the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

I do get credit for having a California sound to my music, but I don't think people really know what that means - they think the Beach Boys. I'm thinking more like Sunset Strip in the 1960s and stuff like that.

Dick Dale don't surf no more.

Sometimes I listen to '60s or oldies stations to see if they're going to play a Beach Boys song.

My dad was a soul fan and a singer himself, and he loved vocal harmony, stuff like the Beach Boys and Motown like the Four Tops, which was a big influence on me.

Man, Dick Dale shreds. He's welcomed to anybody's bar mitzvah.

You shouldn't even be writing this story if you haven't heard me play live. You can't write with the passion you receive until you see a Dick Dale concert.

Los Angeles produced the Beach Boys. Dusseldorf produced Kraftwerk. New York produced Chic. Manchester produced Joy Division.

There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too.

If you look at just right, there's not a nickel's worth of difference between what Buck Owens and the Buckaroos played on 'Buckaroo' and what the Ventures were playing. It's all that twangy instrumental stuff.

The Beach Boys already had about four or five albums under our belt when these newcomers, The Beatles, took the U.S. by storm in early 1964.

Surf music is actually just the sound of the waves played on a guitar: that wet, splashy sound.

Surf music is played through a Showman amp with a Stratocaster guitar.

I think I got turned onto The Beach Boys for the first time with the 'Endless Summer' album in 1974. The power of that music still, to this day, bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. You don't have to think about it; it's something that you feel.

Of course The Beach Boys will be camp.

When my guitar was growling, playing surf beat, you could hear it; you could feel it.

I make music that surfers dig, but, like Brian Wilson in the Beach Boys, I'm the dude who never gets on the board.

Will none of the powers that be realize what Brian Wilson did with the chords. Deftly taking from all sources, old rock, Four Freshman, he got in his records a beautiful hybrid sound - Let Him Run Wild, Don't Worry Baby, I Get Around, Fun, Fun, Fun - 'and she had fun, fun, fun 'till her daddy took her T-bird away.'

The magic that you find in surf music, I think, is really timeless. You know, when I was very young, I was in a surf band. Surf music is an instrumental music that still means a lot to me, not in an nostalgic way, but as something that really gets to the heart of the guitar itself.

Nothing could capture the sound of Dick Dale - he was too loud.

I was a Beach Boys guy, but I was won over. In '64, as the radio stations were creating this duel between The Beatles and The Beach Boys, I slowly but surely got won over by the Mop Tops.

My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.

Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.

I really love a lot of early Sixties R&B, rock n' roll, and I love performing songs that have that power and soulfulness.