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Carl Wilson

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[Wikipedia] Carl Dean Wilson was an American musician, singer, and songwriter who co-founded the Beach Boys. He was their lead guitarist, the youngest sibling of bandmates Brian and Dennis, and the group's de facto leader in the early to mid-1970s. He was also the band's musical director on stage from 1965 unti

Quotes by Carl Wilson

“Bourdieu's interpretation was that tastes were serving as strategic tools. While working-class tastes seemed mainly a default (serving at best to express…

Social status

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“...this midlevel cultural-capital audience is not as far from the average white pop critic as we might have expected. We usually make…

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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.

Early

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“...God's love is unspeakable, implacable, its gaze matter-of-fact. But human love is something else: We love in excess of God's love if…

Human love

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First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at,…

Action

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“And the places she turns up in Jamaica are all the more curious. I remember being at sound-system dances and hearing everyone…

Celine Dion

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I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.

Hendrix

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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows…

Always

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Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock…

Any

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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico…

About

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“Suck said that Gummo evoked “the vertigo we encounter when people discover and make up new standards of cool and beauty,”

Beauty

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