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" Without meditation, I'd probably be dead. "

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" Keep a cool head and a warm heart. "

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

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

" 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. "

Positive Attitude

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

" 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 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. "

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

" '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. "

" 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. "

" Mankind invents things to fight about. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If we all take the time to listen and love each other, this world would be a better place. "

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

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

" You have to be careful not to get overexposed. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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