I’d earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
BRIAN WILSONLove and mercy that’s what you need tonight. Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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I sit and I write automatically. I don’t really try to write. My subconscious mind takes over and writes the songs for me. Songs come very easily for me. When I’m inspired, it takes me 20 minutes to write a song.
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I get off on hearing other people’s voices. I like voices: they’re my favourite things on records.
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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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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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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 say how you feel, and songs don’t lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is–there’s nothing that lies about a song.
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I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.
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You don’t really know what to believe until the Government denies it.
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I play piano all the time. I’m always at my piano, playing music.
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Humor – it helps to make the vibe better – it loosens up the vibrations.
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I’m doing good. I’ve had a slight nervous breakdown in the ’60s. I got through that. And I got through the ’70s. And I was in a doctor’s program during the ’80s and then I met Melinda and we’ve been together ever since. I’ve got a happy life.
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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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Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of ‘That Lucky Old Sun’ was inspired by ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ – not influenced, but inspired.
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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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The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
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