I believe that music is God’s voice.
BRIAN WILSONEvery now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can’t understand what they are saying. It’s a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.
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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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I’m just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood – but not very often.
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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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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 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 think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.
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The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
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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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You’re called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.
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I’d earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
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The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio…well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.
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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 can write songs, I’ve had songs in movies, but I can’t compose film scores, you know?
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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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