The Beastie Boys Quotes

United States,
1981 – 2012.

The Beastie Boys were an American hip hop group from New York City formed in 1981. The group comprised Michael "Mike D" Diamond (vocals, drums), Adam "MCA" Yauch (vocals, bass) and Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz (vocals, guitar).

It's what happens when you've been in the game a long time. We had to grow up in a very public way.

Mike D The Beastie Boys
- Game
- Public
- Grow Up
I don't think about Yauch in the form of his death. I think about him in the form of his life. He was like my closest older brother. There's just so much that we lived through together.

Mike D The Beastie Boys
- Life
- Together
- Death

You think about when you're with your friend, and you hang out with your friend. And then you go do whatever you're doing, your life. You know, and then you see your friend again. But for us, we were friends that, we would be together, and then we would go to work, which was us still again, so we were always together.

Ad-Rock The Beastie Boys
- Life
- Together
- Friend
It's been fun to just play bass in a band and play live but be in the background.

Ad-Rock The Beastie Boys
- Play
- Background
- Bass
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry
- Hand
- Bird
- Grasp
A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

John Berry
- Money
- Idea
- Fail
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John Berry
- Job
- Library
- Unsafe