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"I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach."
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"If Frank and The Beach Boys got together and did a Super Session album, it would be a gas."
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"I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked."
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"Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water."
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"Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin."
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"I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs."
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"We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about."
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"I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?"
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"To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude."
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"They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette."
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"The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music."
Father

"My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us."
Father

"Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild."
Baby

"There will always be a Beach Boys. Being a Beach Boy is like being in love."
Love

"I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs."
Beach

"The thing I wonder about is where does Brian's creative spark come from? Not his subjects or anything, but his spark. What makes it so great for me is that I really don't know. There's a mystery behind Brian, even to me."
Mystery

"My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me."
Mom

"The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group."
Music

"He just had a very unique way of expressing himself physically with his kids."
Kids

"They say I live a fast life. Maybe I just like a fast life. I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world. It won't last forever, either. But the memories will."
Life
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