Mike Love Quotes

It's a particular skill, I think, doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between the gaps, between the music.

I do some three-part harmonies on 'Throes of Rejection' and 'Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks,' but I didn't go overboard with it.

I've always thought it was easier for girls to sing harmonies because their voices can go to that higher plane so much more easy than a male voice.

Harmonies come really naturally to me. I don't have to labor too hard over them. I'll sing a lead vocal, and then I will immediately have all of these other ideas for vocal harmonies. I think that some of the most fun parts of recording, for me, are the vocal harmonies.

It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.

How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.

I'm a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family's music, I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.

Harmony singing isn't meant to be done alone.

Harmony singing is my favorite thing to do in music!

Harmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up.

I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.

I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice.

I sing like a lark.

I'm afraid of a cappella. I don't read music, and I have a hard time harmonizing. Basically, I'm a melody singer only.

Don and I are infamous for our split, but we're closer than most brothers. Harmony singing requires that you enlarge yourself, not use any kind of suppression. Harmony is the ultimate love.

The Italians are very unmusical. If I go to a Protestant church in London or Amsterdam or listen to a black choir, I hear four-part harmony. Italians could never do that. In Italy, we all have to sing the melody because we cannot harmonise.

I like singing in harmony - I like not having to sing every song.

Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

I remember hanging out at Starbucks. There were these older guys who would sit around and play Crosby, Stills & Nash songs. I was just so in love with music. I would just go hang out with them, and I would try to sing and harmonize with them. I didn't even know the songs.

What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.

While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.

I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos.

Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.

I like The Four Freshmen, anything with good harmonies, some Beach Boys. I like the girl groups as well, like The Dixie Cups and all that.

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