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Keep a cool head and a warm heart.
Mankind invents things to fight about.
Without meditation, Id probably be dead.
Without meditation, I'd probably be dead.
The history of mankind is a history of war.
You have to be careful not to get overexposed.
I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.
I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.
I was in the oil business for a while--gas and oil, check the tires.
I'd like to do something with Bruno Mars if we ever got the opportunity.
Locally and globally, we need to be doing everything we can to help Mother Earth.
I've got different things going on - part spiritualist, part humanitarian, part brat.
Love is probably the most powerful force in the cosmos, capable of creating miracles.
There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction.
The original Beach Boys are Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, Mike Love, and Alan Jardine.
The Beach Boys was a family hobby that we turned into a profession. We're very blessed.
If Frank and The Beach Boys got together and did a Super Session album, it would be a gas.
If we all take the time to listen and love each other, this world would be a better place.
As a songwriter, your songs are, in a way, like your children - you want them to be appreciated.
Sometimes I listen to '60s or oldies stations to see if they're going to play a Beach Boys song.
The problem with popularity is that if it gets too popular everybody leaves and goes somewhere else.
I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.
There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.
You can't sustain a fan base on a great catalog alone. You must take your music directly to the people.
I'm the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation.
Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them.
During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.
Some people are denizens of the studio. I'm more of a denizen of the live appearance. I love the live thing.
There are a few good 'psych' groups but too many never change from their first appearance. They don't develop.
I've had an incredible life with a lot of triumphs, my share of heartbreak, and some pretty amazing experiences.
There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too.
Meditation was a turning point for me. It helped me deal with a lot of stress and has given me a lot of relaxation.
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.
One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'
I meditate every day, which is profoundly restful and restorative. It wipes out a lot of the fatigue. That's my secret weapon.
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.
I learned that when you do the best job that you can do, some people will idolize you, others won't care, and some will vilify you.
As you get older, you either become proactive about staying in shape and taking care of yourself, or, you know, time has its effect on you.
I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that... rock music became a huge economic force.
The Beach Boys already had about four or five albums under our belt when these newcomers, The Beatles, took the U.S. by storm in early 1964.
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.
The music I have created, along with the other Beach Boys, has taken me all over the world. For these past 50 years, I guess you could say, 'I get around.'
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.
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.
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.
By 1968, both The Beatles and The Beach Boys had plenty of fame - we were looking for something deeper. The Maharishi taught us how to go beyond thinking and action in order to grow from within.
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.
Since learning Transcendental Meditation from Maharishi in December 1967, it has been a valuable practice which has enabled me to go through some very stressful life experiences while remaining centered.
Keep a cool head and a warm heart. A mantra that became a song, inspired by the wise words of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. If we all take the time to listen and love each other, this world would be a better place.
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.