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"They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette."
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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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"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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"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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"The band would play on the night off for the local hotel bands and we'd back all the different acts. So I'd been advised by good friends of mine to come back to Hawaii. Oh, I loved Honolulu, playing at a place right on the beach at Waikiki!"
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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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"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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"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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"You'll never find your gold on a sandy beach."
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"There will always be a Beach Boys. Being a Beach Boy is like being in love."
Love
"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
"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
"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
"He just had a very unique way of expressing himself physically with his kids."
Kids
"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
"I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs."
Beach
"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
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