One World ...of Peace Through Music, Part 9 of 11, Dec. 18, 1998, Live at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA

“I’ve enjoyed your enthusiasm all night for music. Music is so special. I know you like music; I know you love music. I’d like you to remember something, though – if music has ever meant something in your historical past, if it’s ever brought back a memory, if it’s ever excited you or made you happy or any of those things that music can do – what I do as a composer, and all the other gentlemen and ladies as composers have done, is all alone in a room; what we do is inside our heads: we convert our emotions to music. And in that human way, that if I’m doing a love scene, and I know what I feel like when I’m in love, I hope that you will get that message because you will feel the same love, this humanness that we share. But we write little lifeless notes. Don’t ever forget, please don’t ever forget that if music has made you laugh, if music has made you cry, it’s because the ladies and gentlemen of the orchestra have put all the passion and soul into lifeless notes. These are wonderful musicians. I actually love them.

We do have someone else to thank, and we’d like to do it like musicians do, through music. And it is actually for the person who has inspired the evening. The inspiration, someone had to think of it for us to do it; someone had to have those thoughts. And we simply would like to say, ‘Thank You!’ A piece of music that You have written, words in music that we would like to perform for You.” “I Will Forever Love You”

So far, we have been on a journey into a number of styles of music, and our next act is certainly no stranger to the stage. Originating in the 1960’s, the Beach Boys’ sounds and style were formative to American music. Over the years, many of their hits have become household names. We are proud to bring to you tonight “Al Jardine, Family, and Friends,” bringing together the talents of Al Jardine and his two sons, Matt and Adam; with the Wilson sisters from Wilson Phillips’ fame, Wendy and Carnie Wilson; and a host of friends who’ve played or have been affiliated with the original Beach Boys over the years.

“Actually, we’d like to do a dedication right now. This is kind of, well, impromptu to Supreme Master Ching Hai. We’d like to dedicate this next song, it’s called ‘God Only Knows.’”

“I may not always love you But long as there are stars above you You never need to doubt it I’ll make you so sure about it God only knows what I’d be without you”