If you’re going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it’s better to write with collaborators.
BRIAN WILSONI always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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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 listen to oldies but goodies stations, ’60s and ’70s music.
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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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Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I’m finished with it.
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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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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 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 get off on hearing other people’s voices. I like voices: they’re my favourite things on records.
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I like the piano – I’m always about 15 feet away from a piano.
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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 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’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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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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There’s nothing greater than a girl…. Well a kid, your daughter, but that’s a girl too.
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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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I’d earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
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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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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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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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You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the road The roots are deep inside us It’s the rhythm in our soul.
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The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
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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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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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