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.
BRIAN WILSONIf there’s not love present, it’s much, much harder to function. When there’s love present, it’s easier to deal with life.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
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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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There’s nothing greater than a girl…. Well a kid, your daughter, but that’s a girl too.
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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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I listen to oldies but goodies stations, ’60s and ’70s music.
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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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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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I can write songs, I’ve had songs in movies, but I can’t compose film scores, you know?
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Love and mercy that’s what you need tonight. Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight.
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I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.
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Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.
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I earned my famous name.
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I hate those old falsettos, I really do, and it’s embarrassing since I’ve grown up.
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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 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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I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.
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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 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 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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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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I get off on hearing other people’s voices. I like voices: they’re my favourite things on records.
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If you’re going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it’s better to write with collaborators.
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I play piano all the time. I’m always at my piano, playing music.
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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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I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.
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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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