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.
BRIAN WILSONI have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I’ll have my feelings guide my hands.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.
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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 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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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 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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All of the artists did such a beautiful job I can’t thank them enough. I’m just honored that ‘God Only Knows’ was chosen. ‘God Only Knows’ is a very special song. An extremely spiritual song and one of the best I’ve ever written.
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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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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 get off on hearing other people’s voices. I like voices: they’re my favourite things on records.
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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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I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.
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I play piano all the time. I’m always at my piano, playing music.
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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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I like the piano – I’m always about 15 feet away from a piano.
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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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