Bruce Johnston Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Bruce Johnston:

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bruce-johnston-quotes/#d9d0bb90

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bruce-johnston-quotes/#6a9b1835

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bruce-johnston-quotes/#1359b953

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bruce-johnston-quotes/#d8373fac

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bruce-johnston-quotes/#ff134e35

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bruce-johnston-quotes/#bdb5988a

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bruce-johnston-quotes/#fbd67b5d

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bruce-johnston-quotes/#e44e8f1a

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bruce-johnston-quotes/#f39afbb3

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bruce-johnston-quotes/#f7d53803

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bruce-johnston-quotes/#e782d3de

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bruce-johnston-quotes/#669b9ef0

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bruce-johnston-quotes/#eaf60238

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bruce-johnston-quotes/#686bdc96

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bruce-johnston-quotes/#3c51dbe4

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bruce-johnston-quotes/#a01884c3

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bruce-johnston-quotes/#cbf71e3f

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bruce-johnston-quotes/#0da29f3e

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bruce-johnston-quotes/#159adf2c

We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial.
~Bruce Johnston


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bruce-johnston-quotes/#e65cd2bf

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bruce-johnston-quotes/#9a94bb2b

Of course The Beach Boys will be camp.
~Bruce Johnston


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bruce-johnston-quotes/#16ff12a6

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bruce-johnston-quotes/#eb7b93f7

Records... a record just shouldn't be that important.
~Bruce Johnston


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bruce-johnston-quotes/#d5449e2d

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