Words matter. These are the best Mike Love Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The Beach Boys was a family hobby that we turned into a profession. We’re very blessed.
There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.
Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope’s. I’ve been going down there all my life, to that whole area.
We came from the ’60s era, when we started and made so many hits. The song value from the ’60s was so darn good, you’ve got The Beatles, The Beach Boys, all of Motown, and plenty of other people, too… amazing records, amazing songs.
We’ve had hassles, ups and downs, ins and outs, failures and triumphs. We’re human beings, and we’re not perfect. And we’re mortal. But the Beach Boys is musically a tremendous body of work that transcends individuality and time and national boundaries.
I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that… rock music became a huge economic force.
There’s the historical part of The Beach Boys’ music; it’s pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too.
The Beach Boys already had about four or five albums under our belt when these newcomers, The Beatles, took the U.S. by storm in early 1964.
I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.
Everybody has their own appreciation of the Beach Boys, depending on where they’re coming from with their musical tastes, so we tried to be representative of all eras and of everybody in the band and their contributions.
People say the Beatles were John Lennon. What is Paul McCartney? Chopped liver? But everyone has their own favourite members whose creativity they gravitate to. That’s normal.
Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them.
As you get older, you either become proactive about staying in shape and taking care of yourself, or, you know, time has its effect on you.
Keep a cool head and a warm heart.
If you ask any couple who have been married 50 years or longer, they will tell you they’ve experienced it all. The same is true of the Beach Boys.
I’m the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation.
‘The Warmth of the Sun’ was a very beautiful song that Brian and I wrote in the time period associated with President Kennedy’s assassination. We didn’t write words about that, but it was around that time we recorded that song, and there’s a lot of emotion involved there.
I’ve got different things going on – part spiritualist, part humanitarian, part brat.
The original Beach Boys are Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, Mike Love, and Alan Jardine.
One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to ‘think globally and act locally.’
Because of the inherent challenges of life on the earth, all of humanity is vulnerable. This is all the more reason to seek the kingdom of heaven within and find the peace that leads to understanding.
I did not fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I cannot fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I am not his employer. I do not have such authority. And even if I did, I would never fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I love Brian Wilson. We are partners. He’s my cousin by birth and my brother in music.
People meditate themselves because they are just trying to feel better, and transcendental meditation is a natural mental technique that you can perform and that provides that relaxation and also a little bit of broader perspective.
I cannot fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I am not his employer. I do not have such authority. And even if I did, I would never fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I love Brian Wilson. We are partners. He’s my cousin by birth and my brother in music.
The studio part, to me, can be pretty laborious. You’re inside for hours on end and can be pretty frustrating to get the sound you hear in your head to come out of those speakers.
