Bruce Johnston Quotes
"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."
- Bruce Johnston
(Related: Road)
"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."
- Bruce Johnston
(Related: Business, Attention, Right)
"We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial."
- Bruce Johnston
(Related: Being)
"We're just kinda surviving at a very comfortable level."
- Bruce Johnston
"We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously."
- Bruce Johnston
(Related: Trying)
"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."
- Bruce Johnston
(Related: Royalty)
"Of course The Beach Boys will be camp."
- Bruce Johnston
(Related: Beach, Boys, Will)
"You know, if I wrote the arrangements two years from now, they would probably be a lot slicker."
- Bruce Johnston
(Related: Now, Years)
"You know, The Beach Boys' image is kinda like a group Doris Day, you know what I mean?"
- Bruce Johnston
(Related: Beach, Boys, Day)
"We've recorded over our voices once and double the harmonies, make them thick. The Four Freshmen do that."
- Bruce Johnston
"For us... you know, we're not The Beatles."
- Bruce Johnston
"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
(Related: Beach, Boys, First)
"Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al's the original member of the group."
- Bruce Johnston
(Related: Road)
"But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing."
- Bruce Johnston
(Related: Cleanliness)
"Sometimes one of us might be missing because we might be away or something, but there's always four or five."
- Bruce Johnston
"Everybody can dig The Beatles, but why should everybody dig us?"
- Bruce Johnston
"Records... a record just shouldn't be that important."
- Bruce Johnston
"I mean it shouldn't hang you up emotionally if your record fails."
- Bruce Johnston
"I never could get into The Chambers Brothers. They make good records, but I never could get behind it."
- Bruce Johnston
(Related: Brothers)
"I really dig The Byrds. I think they are the most underrated - in their original form - pop group."
- Bruce Johnston
"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."
- Bruce Johnston
(Related: Now)
"I've been with the group since 1965. I will be beginning my fifth year on April ninth this year."
- Bruce Johnston
(Related: April, Beginning, Will)
"Carl, Dennis and Brian are brothers, and Mike Love's a cousin."
- Bruce Johnston
(Related: Love, Brothers)