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"They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette."
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"On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then I'd go back to school for the week."
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"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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"To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude."
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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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"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach."
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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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"I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?"
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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 never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach."
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"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
"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
"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 can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs."
Beach
"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
"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
"There will always be a Beach Boys. Being a Beach Boy is like being in love."
Love
"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
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