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"The pictures we saw before we got down here didn't even touch the reality of what it is like being here. We can be right on the beach with all the devastation and still not be able to imagine what it was like when the wall of water actually came up."

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

"They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette."

"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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"You know, if I wrote the arrangements two years from now, they would probably be a lot slicker."

"I really dig the scene that's happening now, I really do, because there might be a lot of bad things going on, but if out of all of those bad things ten per cent of the groovy part of it stays, wow... you can't beat that."

"I never could get into The Chambers Brothers. They make good records, but I never could get behind it."

"We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums."

"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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