Quotes by Mike Love

About Mike Love:

Michael Edward "Mike" Love is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and activist who is a member and co-founder of the Beach Boys. For most of the Beach Boys' career, Love has been one of the band's lyricists, contributing to each of their studio albums.
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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'd like to do something with Bruno Mars if we ever got the opportunity.

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

I meditate every day, which is profoundly restful and restorative. It wipes out a lot of the fatigue. That's my secret weapon.

Mike Love

I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.

Mike Love

Sometimes I listen to '60s or oldies stations to see if they're going to play a Beach Boys song.

Mike Love

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.

Mike Love

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.

Mike Love

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

Mike Love

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.

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 ...

Mike Love

Keep a cool head and a warm heart.

Mike Love

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.

Mike Love

The history of mankind is a history of war.

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

One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'

Mike Love

I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.

Mike Love

The name 'The Beach Boys' is controlled by Brother Records Inc., which was founded by the original members of the Beach Boys and whose sole shareholders voted over a decade ago to grant me an exclusive license to tour as 'The Beach Boys.' With it, I'...

Mike Love

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' a...

Mike Love

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.

Mike Love

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

Mike Love

Author Bio

  • NameMike Love
  • DescriptionAmerican singer, songwriter, member of the Beach Boys
  • BornMarch 15, 1941
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter; Composer; Singer; Musician