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.
BRIAN WILSONI’m just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood – but not very often.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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Humor – it helps to make the vibe better – it loosens up the vibrations.
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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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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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You’re called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.
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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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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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I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.
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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’d earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
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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 in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there’s a lot to be said for that way of thinking.
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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 hate those old falsettos, I really do, and it’s embarrassing since I’ve grown up.
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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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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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