Musician Quotes

Adele's amazing, I think the world of her and her music and I think Tinie Tempah is cool. To work with someone like Kanye West would be awesome.

A lot of people put pressure on themselves and think it will be way too hard for them to live out their dreams. Mentors are there to say, 'Look, it's not that tough. It's not as hard as you think. Here are some guidelines and things I have gone through to get to where I am in my career.'

A lot of people look back ten years ago and go, 'Why was I wearing that?' I look back a year ago and say the same thing. The craziest outfit I ever wore was this white suit that I wore to an awards show in L.A. that I teamed with yellow shoes. It was interesting. It popped.

You know, The Beach Boys' image is kinda like a group Doris Day, you know what I mean?

You know, if I wrote the arrangements two years from now, they would probably be a lot slicker.

You know, Glen Campbell sang with the group right before I joined the group.

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.

We've recorded over our voices once and double the harmonies, make them thick. The Four Freshmen do that.

We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously.

We're just kinda surviving at a very comfortable level.

We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial.

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.

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.

Sometimes one of us might be missing because we might be away or something, but there's always four or five.

Records... a record just shouldn't be that important.

Of course The Beach Boys will be camp.

I've been with the group since 1965. I will be beginning my fifth year on April ninth this year.

I really dig The Byrds. I think they are the most underrated - in their original form - pop group.

I never could get into The Chambers Brothers. They make good records, but I never could get behind it.

I mean it shouldn't hang you up emotionally if your record fails.

For us... you know, we're not The Beatles.

Everybody can dig The Beatles, but why should everybody dig us?

Carl, Dennis and Brian are brothers, and Mike Love's a cousin.

But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing.

Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al's the original member of the group.

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.

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.

There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!

Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.

Midi is my hobby.