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I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys. -- Zooey Deschanel
The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group. -- Dennis Wilson
I love the Sex Pistols. I'm a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan. -- Bruno Mars
I'm the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation. -- Mike Love
I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs. -- Dennis Wilson
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
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
I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform. -- John Stamos
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
Crank up the Beach Boys, Baby. -- Randy Newman
You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran? Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran. -- John McCain
They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette. -- Leif Garrett
There will always be a Beach Boys. Being a Beach Boy is like being in love -- Dennis Wilson
There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too. -- Mike Love
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
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
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
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
SMiLE' is perhaps the Beach Boys' most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release in 2011. That's a long time to wait for what was said to be Brian Wilson's masterpiece. -- Henry Rollins
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
The modern recording studio, with its well-trained engineers, 24-track machines and shiny new recording consoles, encourages the artist to get involved with sound. And there have always been artists who could make the equipment serve their needs in a highly personal way - I would single out the Beatles, Phil Spector, the Beach Boys and Thom Bell. -- Jon Landau
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
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
Of course The Beach Boys will be camp. -- Bruce Johnston
There will always be a Beach Boys. Being a Beach Boy is like being in love. -- Dennis Wilson
Certainly, the Beach Boys and the early Beatles records were a huge influence on me lyrically. -- Rivers Cuomo
If Frank and The Beach Boys got together and did a Super Session album, it would be a gas. -- Mike Love
I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest. -- Antonio Carlos Jobim
Sometimes I listen to '60s or oldies stations to see if they're going to play a Beach Boys song. -- Mike Love
I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae. -- B.o.B
Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them. -- Mike Love
It's like when a guy gets a divorce from his wife. You part ways. That's what I did with The Beach Boys. -- Brian Wilson
Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together. -- Tommy Rettig
I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that... rock music became a huge economic force. -- Mike Love
I like The Four Freshmen, anything with good harmonies, some Beach Boys. I like the girl groups as well, like The Dixie Cups and all that. -- Alex Turner
The Beach Boys already had about four or five albums under our belt when these newcomers, The Beatles, took the U.S. by storm in early 1964. -- Mike Love
The music I have created, along with the other Beach Boys, has taken me all over the world. For these past 50 years, I guess you could say, 'I get around.' -- Mike Love
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. -- Bruce Johnston
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
By 1968, both The Beatles and The Beach Boys had plenty of fame - we were looking for something deeper. The Maharishi taught us how to go beyond thinking and action in order to grow from within. -- Mike Love
'SMiLE' is perhaps the Beach Boys' most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release in 2011. That's a long time to wait for what was said to be Brian Wilson's masterpiece. -- Henry Rollins
Everybody has their own appreciation of the Beach Boys, depending on where they're coming from with their musical tastes, so we tried to be representative of all eras and of everybody in the band and their contributions. -- Mike Love
I had the great opportunity to work with some of the greatest artists - the Beach Boys, the Temptations, the Four Tops. Otis Redding. Wilson Pickett. Stevie Wonder. So many great singers. And don't forget Clarence Carter! -- Percy Sledge
The awesomeness of God is that even in the works of the Beach Boys, Beatles, etc., the beauty of the music is a mere reflection of what God does everyday. He creates music of all kinds and moods. -- John Foster
I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments. -- Carl Wilson
I love Radiohead, which most people don't expect, and I listen to everything from Stevie Wonder to Steely Dan, Carole King, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, Beyonce Knowles, Vampire Weekend, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Burt Bacharach, and Paul Simon. -- Eliza Doolittle
I do get credit for having a California sound to my music, but I don't think people really know what that means - they think the Beach Boys. I'm thinking more like Sunset Strip in the 1960s and stuff like that. -- Ariel Pink
We've had hassles, ups and downs, ins and outs, failures and triumphs. We're human beings, and we're not perfect. And we're mortal. But the Beach Boys is musically a tremendous body of work that transcends individuality and time and national boundaries. -- Mike Love
Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal head. I was in a bunch of punk rock bands. The Bee Gees, hip-hop and the Beach Boys are just as much of an influence on me as Smokey. -- Mayer Hawthorne
We came from the '60s era, when we started and made so many hits. The song value from the '60s was so darn good, you've got The Beatles, The Beach Boys, all of Motown, and plenty of other people, too... amazing records, amazing songs. -- Mike Love
If you saw my musical collection it's absolutely horrendous, I've got everything from Stockhausen to The Beach Boys to Gina G, all sorts of terrible things and other people come here and look at my record collection and go, "Ah, you can't possibly like that - how embarrassing!" -- Thighpaulsandra
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
Discovering L.A., in particular in the early '80s, was pretty spectacular; it was fun and carefree, and there was not nearly as much traffic as exists today. It was very much the last gasps of the Beach Boys' ideal view of L.A.: sun, the beach, cars, blondes, etc. -- Zach Galligan
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
The Beach Boys have always been a part of the '60s spectrum, with The Beatles and that kind of thing. They were a part of the music business like everyone else. And they did quite well as a singing group, and I finished a lot of good records, and I'm very proud of them. -- Brian Wilson
The name 'The Beach Boys' is controlled by Brother Records Inc., which was founded by the original members of the Beach Boys and whose sole shareholders voted over a decade ago to grant me an exclusive license to tour as 'The Beach Boys.' With it, I've felt a great responsibility to uphold, honor and further our legacy. -- Mike Love
What we look for when we need to find someone who can fit in with our music, the vocals and the harmonies and the way they blend are very important to us because if you listen to Beach Boys music, the harmonies, not only are the notes being sung, but there's a blend to it. The voices have to blend. -- Mike Love
Ever since our Surfin' Safari' began in the early 1960's, the relations'hip with The Beach Boys and water has been synonymous. 'Surfin', 'Catch a Wave', and 'Surfin' USA' are songs which capture the feelings of being out in the water without a care in the world, living a dream so many long to live no matter where they are from. -- Mike Love
I think the Beach Boys' legacy is 'Fun, Fun, Fun,' you know? We're calling our next tour '50 Years of Fun, Fun, Fun.' By and large, the Beach Boys' legacy is about incredibly positivity. We've traveled around the world and uplifted the spirits of hundreds of millions of people. Our sound is one of the most recognizable in all of music. -- Mike Love
I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it. -- Estelle Fanta Swaray
I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it. -- Estelle Fanta Swaray
If it is a good song, it is a good song. The Beatles were pop, the beach boys were pop and it's the best music of all time. -- William Fitzsimmons

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