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The Beach Boys

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  • The Beach Boys: In Fort Worth, Texas there is a drug clinic which takes people off the streets and helps them get over bad LSD trips. They don't use any traditional medical treatment whatsoever. All they do is play the patient our 'Smiley Smile' album and apparently this acts as a soothing remedy which relaxes them and helps them to recover completely from their trip.
  • The Beach Boys: Every once in a while, an individual is born into the world whose whole being is music. I think Brian is one of those rare people. (Carl talking about Brian)
  • The Beach Boys: A voice or a song can be so comforting to someone who really needs it.

    Musically, I am The Beach Boys.

    I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

    Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.

    The ocean scares me.

    I hate those old falsettos, I really do, and it's embarrassing since I've grown up.

    I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.

    (Some of Brians thoughts on the band)
  • The Beach Boys: If there wasn't The Beach Boys and there wasn't music, I would not even talk to them. But through music I fell in love with my brothers. (Dennis regarding his brothers)
  • The Beach Boys: I hope that the karma will fuck up Mike Love's meditation forever. That album is an embarrassment to my life. It should self-destruct. (Dennis Wilson, 1979 on "M.I.U.)
  • The Beach Boys: The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group
  • The Beach Boys: We've done everything together. Shit, eat, fart, cry, laugh. Everything. (Dennis on the bands activity together)
  • The Beach Boys: Brian Wilson is not a good looking human being, yet his music is beautiful. Look at Nat King Cole--he looked like a real piece of shit but he had a beautiful voice. Look at Aretha Franklin--she would scare me in a dark room, yet her voice is fantastic. Roy Orbison too. The thing I listen too is the music.
  • The Beach Boys: People always thought Brian was a good time guy until he started doing those heavy, searching songs on 'Pet Sounds' and all, but that stuff was closer to his own personality and perceptions. By the time people get close to an accurate picture of Brian Wilson--if ever-- he's gonna be far beyond them again, and I can dig his frustration.
  • The Beach Boys: 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. (Dennis on the first time they heard their music on the radio)
  • The Beach Boys: Brian Wilson is the Beach Boys. He is the band. We're his fucking messengers. He is all of it. Period. We're nothing. He's everything.
  • The Beach Boys: Because of the attitude of a few mental dinosaurs intent on exploiting our initial success, Brian's huge talent has never been fully appreciated in America and the potential of the group has been stifled.... If the Beatles had suffered this kind of misrepresentation, they would have never got past singing 'Please Please Me' and 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' and leaping around in Beatle suits
  • The Beach Boys: I can tell you the day the Beach Boys will no longer exist--never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs
  • The Beach Boys: I think it's difficult to promote and be commercially successful with an album that's called 'Sweet Insanity'...I don't think that's very mainstream pop.
  • The Beach Boys: And one of the greatest things that interested me was that he (the Maharishi) said 'You don't have to give up your Rolls Royce...and forsake all your pursuits of material pleasures...to develop innerspiritual qualities'. That sounded real good to me.(Mike Love on his spiritual counseling.)
  • The Beach Boys: What holds us together as a team now is music...and greed
  • The Beach Boys: I am always thinking when I am writing a lyric--same as I did with 'Kokomo', which was No. 1 in 1988, whereas Brian's solo album came out and didn't have one hit record on it. (Mike Love on the music for the group)
  • The Beach Boys: I like to see a group or person entertain me...that's why I wear my gold lame jacket and turban. Even though Carl dresses pretty spiffy too, the rest of the group doesn't care so much. Of course, just because Al Jardine hasn't changed his underwear since the Japan tour in sixty-five--I mean you can't ask for everything
  • The Beach Boys: The problem with popularity is that if it gets too popular everybody leaves and goes somewhere else
  • The Beach Boys: My darling uncle didn't die soon enough. But I didn't resent Murry anymore than I'd resent anyone who stole from his kids, beat them unnecessarily, intimidated them, and screwed them up emotionally.
  • The Beach Boys: There are a few good 'psych' groups but too many never change from their first appearance. They don't develop.