I’d earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
BRIAN WILSONI think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there’s a lot to be said for that way of thinking.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
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I’m happy; I’m a happy person.
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J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There’s a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it’s like meditation.
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Any article’s good. Long as it’s publicity, I think that’s all that matters. I think it’s advancement for my career.
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I have stage fright every single concert I’ve ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It’s absolute living hell.
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I like the piano – I’m always about 15 feet away from a piano.
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I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I’ll have my feelings guide my hands.
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There’s nothing greater than a girl…. Well a kid, your daughter, but that’s a girl too.
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I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.
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I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.
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People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation in nature and sunshine and so on…like ‘California Girls’ which was a hymn to youth.
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I wake up in the morning and I say ‘Ahh! Today’s the day for a song! I’m going to write a song today!’ And I do. I write a song.
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Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I’m finished with it.
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If there’s not love present, it’s much, much harder to function. When there’s love present, it’s easier to deal with life.
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You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the road The roots are deep inside us It’s the rhythm in our soul.
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