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Bruce Johnston

"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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"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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"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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"Of course The Beach Boys will be camp."

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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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"You know, The Beach Boys' image is kinda like a group Doris Day, you know what I mean?"

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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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"You'll never find your gold on a sandy beach."

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"We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously."
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"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."
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"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."
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"You know, Glen Campbell sang with the group right before I joined the group."
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"We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial."
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"I never could get into The Chambers Brothers. They make good records, but I never could get behind it."
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"Well, a lot of our concerts do okay, and I know we still get royalty checks which still isn't that important, but again, I have to just say that we're making our records."
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