Beach Boys Quotes

• The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group.

  Dennis Wilson

  Music, Beach, Boys

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• There will always be a Beach Boys. Being a Beach Boy is like being in love

  Dennis Wilson

  Love, Beach, Boys

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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.

  Dennis Wilson

  Beach, Boys, Stage

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• If there wasn't The Beach Boys and there wasn't music, I wouldn't even talk to them. But through the music I fell in love with my brothers.

  Dennis Wilson

  Beach, Brother, Boys

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• I did not fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I cannot fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I am not his employer. I do not have such authority. And even if I did, I would never fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I love Brian Wilson. We are partners. He’s my cousin by birth and my brother in music.

  Mike Love

  Beach, Cousin, Brother

  "Mike Love sets the record straight on Brian Wilson's 'firing'" by Mike Love, articles.latimes.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Crank up the Beach Boys, Baby.

  Randy Newman

  Baby, Beach, Boys

  Song: I Love L.A

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• There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too.

  Mike Love

  Beach, Boys, Historical

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• I think I got turned onto The Beach Boys for the first time with the 'Endless Summer' album in 1974. The power of that music still, to this day, bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. You don't have to think about it; it's something that you feel.

  John Stamos

  Summer, Beach, Heart

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• I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Beach, School, Boys

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• On a personal level, I would like my loved ones to know that I have always done the best that I could to demonstrate my love, and worked hard to provide them with a sense of security. On a more global level, I would like to see that my efforts, whether with the Beach Boys or as an individual, achieve as much benefit to humanity as possible during my lifetime. Peace and love!

  Mike Love

  Beach, Boys, Effort

  "Mike Love of the Beach Boys". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran? Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.

  John McCain

  Song, Beach, Boys

  "McCain and Palin In Their Own Words: 25 Laughable Quotes" by Daniel Kurtzman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2008.

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• I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Beach, Boys, Happy Music

  "Zooey Deschanel: 'I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.

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• If you ask any couple who have been married 50 years or longer, they will tell you they've experienced it all. The same is true of the Beach Boys.

  Mike Love

  Beach, Couple, Boys

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• The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest of California is Beach Boys country, but San Francisco has that moody thing going on, those blues notes wrapped in moisture, an atmosphere that tempers California dreaming and makes life more real. The fog brings reality, but it is still a California reality, one spent outdoors the whole year round.

  Eric Maisel

  Dream, Country, Beach

  Eric Maisel (2010). “A Writer's San Francisco: A Guided Journey for the Creative Soul”, p.7, New World Library

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• If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile.

  Steven Tyler

  Beach, Boys, Islands

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

  Leif Garrett

  Beach, Boys, Remakes

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• We liked the Beach Boys. There was kind of that friendly East Coast, West Coast thing between us. We were always fans. 'God Only Knows' is a brilliant record.

  Bob Gaudio

  Beach, Boys, Friendly

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• In these fast and fickle times, it’s nice to know that there are some things you can always count on: the enduring brilliance of the last page of The Great Gatsby; the near-religious harmonies of the Beach Boys’ “California Girls”; and the lifelong friendship of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

  Sarah Vowell

  Girl, Beach, Religious

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• I love the Sex Pistols. I'm a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.

  Bruno Mars

  Beach, Sex, Queens

  "Bruno Mars: The complete Q&A interview". Interview with George Varga, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 9, 2011.

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• When I started reaching teenage years, I listened to everything that was on the radio like everyone else did, which was Chuck Berry, Beach Boys and then of course The Beatles, Stones. And of course in the 60's, I was completely blown away like everyone else by Hendrix, Cream, Deep Purple, Jeff Beck and all of that... so those were my influences.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Beach, Teenage, Boys

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• I'm the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation.

  Mike Love

  Beach, Boys, Generations

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• I would like to work with Paul McCartney in the future. Or Brian Seltzer. But I guess like, like I said - I'm into The Strokes, like Ben Folds, Eliot Smith, the Beatles are my favorite, the Beach Boys, Queen.

  Drake Bell

  Beach, Queens, Boys

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• I just got exposed to electronica, and I really liked it. I am also good with alternative rock. I like Lana Del Rey, Adele, Dido, Jack Johnson, and I love the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

  Anushka Sharma

  Beach, Boys, Rocks

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• My dad was a soul fan and a singer himself, and he loved vocal harmony, stuff like the Beach Boys and Motown like the Four Tops, which was a big influence on me.

  Katy B

  Beach, Dad, Boys

  "Katy B: Soundtrack of my life" by Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2011.

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• Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the actual power point of view we wanted to be like the Who. Vocally we wanted to be like the Beach Boys, whatever was good at the time.

  Roy Wood

  Beach, Boys, Power

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