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"My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us."
Father
"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
"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
"I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs."
Beach
"There will always be a Beach Boys. Being a Beach Boy is like being in love."
Love
"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
"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 mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me."
Mom
"I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up."
Day
"He just had a very unique way of expressing himself physically with his kids."
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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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"Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water."
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"I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach."
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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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"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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"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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"You'll never find your gold on a sandy beach."
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"We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to have a lot of get-togethers, and if it's at my house, we order pizza because I can't cook."
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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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"You know, The Beach Boys' image is kinda like a group Doris Day, you know what I mean?"
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