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Michael Stipe

"We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month."

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"We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month."

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Donna Grant

"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach."

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Donna Grant

"It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all."

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Donna Grant

"I've never been one to run around in Speedos on the beach."

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Donna Grant

"Before I joined The Beach Boys, I was working at Columbia Records as a producer, and saw The Byrds come in and do their first overdub before Terry even met them."

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Donna Grant

"I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don't have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks. It's always fun."

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Donna Grant

"If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation."

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Donna Grant

"We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month."

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Donna Grant

"I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?"

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Donna Grant

"Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together."

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Donna Grant

"If Frank and The Beach Boys got together and did a Super Session album, it would be a gas."

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Michael Stipe
"My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him."

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Michael Stipe
"When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes."

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Michael Stipe
"And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s."

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Michael Stipe
"But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt."

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Michael Stipe
"I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food."

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Michael Stipe
"So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day."

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Michael Stipe
"I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself."

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Michael Stipe
"There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell."

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Michael Stipe
"There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that."

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Michael Stipe
"Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it's easy to drive to or it's easy to sing along to or whatever."

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