Beach Quote by Bruce Johnston

The Beach Boys have always been a part of the '60s spectrum, with The Beatles and that kind of thing. They were a part…

— Brian Wilson

I remember that first week at the Whisky and the gigs we (The Buffalo Springfield) did with the Byrds, We could really smoke !…

— Stephen Stills

It happened to be, from '73 to '78, the five years that, our most glorious years for bass players. We had Larry Graham, with…

— Marcus Miller

The name 'The Beach Boys' is controlled by Brother Records Inc., which was founded by the original members of the Beach Boys and whose…

— Mike Love

At that time, I was signed to Columbia Records as an Independent Producer. I spent many weeks forming, auditioning, rehearsing and recording demos for…

— Jim Messina

My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers,…

— Chuck Mangione

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…

— Mike Love

We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing,…

— Benmont Tench

A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there's a lot…

— Boy George

We loved the Beach Boys, bands like that, but our originality came out of our lack of ability as copiers. They did mostly complicated,…

— Russell Mael

I was in a situation where I was a West Coast artist signed to an East Coast label.

— YG

I remember recording with Johnny Sandlin at his place right outside Muscle Shoals and he turned me on to a lot of those musicians…

— Derek Trucks