Top 24 Quotes & Sayings by Bruce Johnston

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Bruce Johnston.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Bruce Arthur Johnston is an American musician, singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer who is best known as a member of the Beach Boys since 1965. Johnston also collaborated on many records with Terry Melcher and composed the 1975 Barry Manilow hit, "I Write the Songs".

American - Musician | Born: June 24, 1944

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

Bruce Johnston

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

Bruce Johnston

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

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

Bruce Johnston

Of course The Beach Boys will be camp.

Bruce Johnston

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

Bruce Johnston

We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial.

Bruce Johnston

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

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

Bruce Johnston

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

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

Bruce Johnston

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

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.

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

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

Bruce Johnston

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

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.

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

Bruce Johnston

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

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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