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Quotes by Carl Wilson

After the group got real popular, Fender asked us to endorse their instruments. I think the deal was they'd give them to you then you'd let them print ads and stuff like that. This was around 1962.
– Carl Wilson
First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago.
– Carl Wilson
I guess our influence was just the goodtime music. that's all. You know-having fun, wouldn't you say?
– Carl Wilson
I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
– Carl Wilson
I haven't talked to Brian in a while. I don't even know his current phone number.
– Carl Wilson
I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
– Carl Wilson
I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.
– Carl Wilson
I was influenced personally by Chuck Berry, you know, his guitar-boogie-woogie.
– Carl Wilson
In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
– Carl Wilson
It's fun to use a capo 'cause you can get the strings to really have a bell-like sound. It's a thing I got into when I was writing songs. When I started to really write a lot, I would use the capo to try different keys and different combinations.
– Carl Wilson
My folks got me a single cutaway Kay. It was acoustic but it also had a pickup. That's the guitar I learned to play on.
– Carl Wilson
Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.
– Carl Wilson