California Sound Quotes

I do get credit for having a California sound to my music, but I don't think people really know what that means - they think the Beach Boys. I'm thinking more like Sunset Strip in the 1960s and stuff like that.

The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group.

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

There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too.

'SMiLE' is perhaps the Beach Boys' most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release in 2011. That's a long time to wait for what was said to be Brian Wilson's masterpiece.

I think I got turned onto The Beach Boys for the first time with the 'Endless Summer' album in 1974. The power of that music still, to this day, bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. You don't have to think about it; it's something that you feel.

Of course The Beach Boys will be camp.

There is a lot of California in my... sound, and a ton of it is the laid-back nature of Southern Californians and the beach.

I always thought East L.A. music was so dreamy and languid and kinda greasy.

Crank up the Beach Boys, Baby.

I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village.