John Stamos Quotes

Of course The Beach Boys will be camp.

The first time I heard The Beatles, I cried. It was 'Let it Be'.

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

The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group.

'SMiLE' is perhaps the Beach Boys' most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release in 2011. That's a long time to wait for what was said to be Brian Wilson's masterpiece.

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

No matter what language you speak, music can relate to you in some way, and when that 'Tip Toe' beat drops, it can instantly do something to you. It has the power to move you.

Crank up the Beach Boys, Baby.

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you're from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness.

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

Certainly, the Beach Boys and the early Beatles records were a huge influence on me lyrically.

I've got a good memory. Sometimes it's a curse. I remember what the light was like in the room the first time I heard Van Morrison's 'Moondance.'

I do get credit for having a California sound to my music, but I don't think people really know what that means - they think the Beach Boys. I'm thinking more like Sunset Strip in the 1960s and stuff like that.

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.

You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.

We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness.

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.

It is extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

I was a Beach Boys guy, but I was won over. In '64, as the radio stations were creating this duel between The Beatles and The Beach Boys, I slowly but surely got won over by the Mop Tops.

'Pop' is not a bad word. What's more interesting than changing the chemistry in a room in three minutes with a song?

'I Get Around' came on one day. I'd never heard the Beach Boys before. The sound was so fresh to me. That was the first time when I truly was gripped by the power of music. It opened my eyes to the heights that music can achieve.

To see fans singing our songs and loving them and dancing or crying to some of them, it feels like the first time you ever played it. It really gets to you, like day one.

The Spirit speaks directly to our hearts through music. That's why music has always had such power to move people into positive action.

I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.