That's what my music does for me. It makes people happy. When I play, I thank the Lord I've never seen someone walk away from a Dick Dale dance not having a good time. That's what it's all about.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the joy and positivity that music can bring to people's lives.
Dick Dale expresses the transformative power of music, suggesting that it has the ability to uplift and bring happiness to individuals. He reflects on his experiences performing, indicating that his music not only entertains but also fosters a sense of joy and communal enjoyment, making it a vital part of human connection.
In practice
Sharing this quote at a music festival to emphasize the joy of live performances.
I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.
The whole of life itself expresses the blues. That's why I always say the blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling and understanding. The blues can be about anything pertaining to the facts of life. The blues call on God as much as a spiritual song do.
When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.
If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.
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