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’m happy; I’m a happy person.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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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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I play piano all the time. I’m always at my piano, playing music.
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Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.
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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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Humor – it helps to make the vibe better – it loosens up the vibrations.
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I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.
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You’re called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.
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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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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 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’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’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 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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Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of ‘That Lucky Old Sun’ was inspired by ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ – not influenced, but inspired.
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