Mike Love's Quotes

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.

The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.

There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.

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 never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.

I'm the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation.

If Frank and The Beach Boys got together and did a Super Session album, it would be a gas.

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.

Mankind invents things to fight about.

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

The history of mankind is a history of war.

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

Without meditation, I'd probably be dead.

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

You have to be careful not to get overexposed.

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 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.

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.