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 earned my famous name.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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Any article’s good. Long as it’s publicity, I think that’s all that matters. I think it’s advancement for my career.
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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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Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.
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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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Humor – it helps to make the vibe better – it loosens up the vibrations.
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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 have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I’ll have my feelings guide my hands.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a hard-working guy.
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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 play piano all the time. I’m always at my piano, playing music.
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The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
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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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Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I’m finished with it.
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You don’t really know what to believe until the Government denies it.
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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 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 was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.
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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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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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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 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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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’m happy; I’m a happy person.
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Every 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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I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.
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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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