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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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"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 can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs."

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"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach."

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

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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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"I've never been one to run around in Speedos on the beach."

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"Miami Beach is where neon goes to die."

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"I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don't have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks. It's always fun."

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"When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey."

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"You know, if I wrote the arrangements two years from now, they would probably be a lot slicker."
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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, The Beach Boys' image is kinda like a group Doris Day, you know what I mean?"
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"We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously."
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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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"Of course The Beach Boys will be camp."
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"The group started getting bigger and bigger, so Al started replacing Brian on the road, and then finally there was a big flare-up with Dave Marks and he left the group."
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"You know, Glen Campbell sang with the group right before I joined the group."
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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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"We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial."
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