Mike Love Quotes

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Mike Love

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 15, 1941

There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too.

Mike Love

Some people are denizens of the studio. I'm more of a denizen of the live appearance. I love the live thing.

Mike Love

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.

Mike Love

You can't sustain a fan base on a great catalog alone. You must take your music directly to the people.

Mike Love

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.

Mike Love

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.

Mike Love

The '60s was a time of unthinkabilities.

Mike Love

The Beach Boys was a family hobby that we turned into a profession. We're very blessed.

Mike Love

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.

Mike Love

Meditation was a turning point for me. It helped me deal with a lot of stress and has given me a lot of relaxation.

Mike Love

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.

Mike Love

What we look for when we need to find someone who can fit in with our music, the vocals and the harmonies and the way they blend are very important to us because if you listen to Beach Boys music, the harmonies, not only are the notes being sung, but there's a blend to it. The voices have to blend.

Mike Love

I'd like to do something with Bruno Mars if we ever got the opportunity.

Mike Love

'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.

Mike Love

I love playing the Hard Rocks; they've got a great stage, great lighting, great sound, and not so humongous; its more intimate, so we love playing theaters and clubs where the audience has a really good chance to see and hear the group and where the acoustics are good. I like it when we can hear what we're doing.

Mike Love

I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that... rock music became a huge economic force.

Mike Love

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.

Mike Love

Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them.

Mike Love

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.

Mike Love

The original Beach Boys are Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, Mike Love, and Alan Jardine.

Mike Love