Mike Love Quotes

I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.
I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that... rock music became a huge economic force.
I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.
I think the Beach Boys' legacy is 'Fun, Fun, Fun,' you know? We're calling our next tour '50 Years of Fun, Fun, Fun.' By and large, the Beach Boys' legacy is about incredibly positivity. We've traveled around the world and uplifted the spirits of hundreds of millions of people. Our sound is one of the most recognizable in all of music.
I wrote all the lyrics on 'Good Vibrations' and most of them in 'Kokomo.' 'Kokomo' was extremely popular and fun to sing - it's probably one of the bigger sing-along songs in our show. But then 'Help Me Rhonda,' 'Surfin' USA' and 'California Girls' and 'I Get Around' and 'Fun, Fun, Fun' are great songs as well.
I'd like to do something with Bruno Mars if we ever got the opportunity.
I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.
I'm the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation.
I've got different things going on - part spiritualist, part humanitarian, part brat.
I've had an incredible life with a lot of triumphs, my share of heartbreak, and some pretty amazing experiences.
If we all take the time to listen and love each other, this world would be a better place.
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.
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries. I think there are some songs that are close to immortal. They will last longer than we will in this lifetime.
In the spring of 1968, The Beatles and I were invited by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to travel to Riskikesh, India. Riskikesh has been an important spiritual place to many millions of people over the years. It is situated where the Ganges River flows out of the Himalayas, and to be in that atmosphere was something incredibly special.
Keep a cool head and a warm heart.
Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them.
Meditation was a turning point for me. It helped me deal with a lot of stress and has given me a lot of relaxation.
One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'
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.
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.
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