Zitat des Tages von Mike Love:
I know there's millions of problems in the world, but if you dwell on those, then you're going to be miserable. I think my meditation helps me to transcend and get beyond the grip of all the negativity and regenerate from within a more positive attitude, which comes in very handy when you're going to do 150 concerts a year.
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 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.
Ever since our Surfin' Safari' began in the early 1960's, the relations'hip with The Beach Boys and water has been synonymous. 'Surfin', 'Catch a Wave', and 'Surfin' USA' are songs which capture the feelings of being out in the water without a care in the world, living a dream so many long to live no matter where they are from.
'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'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.
You can't sustain a fan base on a great catalog alone. You must take your music directly to the people.
The '60s was a time of unthinkabilities.
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.
Mankind invents things to fight about.
Without meditation, I'd probably be dead.
During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.
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.
I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.
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.
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.
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.
If we all take the time to listen and love each other, this world would be a better place.
If Frank and The Beach Boys got together and did a Super Session album, it would be a gas.
I've got different things going on - part spiritualist, part humanitarian, part brat.
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.
I actually have heard of acts who only do their new album, and don't do their hits. I've never been in that mind set.
I've had an incredible life with a lot of triumphs, my share of heartbreak, and some pretty amazing experiences.
One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'
The original Beach Boys are Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, Mike Love, and Alan Jardine.
I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.
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.
Writing songs with Brian and performing them with Al Jardine, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, David Marks, Bruce Johnston and many other brilliant musicians over the years is my legacy, and something of which I am very proud and protective.
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.