I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I’ll have my feelings guide my hands.
BRIAN WILSONJ.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.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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The only reason I’d ever get a sex change operation is to see what it’s like to be right all the time.
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So it’s 1976 and we’re still riding on our past success. I mean I’ve gone on like that for I don’t know how long.
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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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I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.
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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’ve never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.
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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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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 was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.
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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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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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There’s nothing greater than a girl…. Well a kid, your daughter, but that’s a girl too.
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I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices saying derogatory things, like I’m terrible and I’m going to die, and they’re usually worse in the afternoon.
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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 consider myself to be a crusader of love. I try to spread love around the world as best I can because I know I have a handle on love.
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