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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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."

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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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"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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"I've been with the group since 1965. I will be beginning my fifth year on April ninth this year."
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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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"Of course The Beach Boys will be camp."
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"Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al's the original member of the group."
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"We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial."
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"You know, Glen Campbell sang with the group right before I joined the group."
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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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