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.
BRIAN WILSONI 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.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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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 earned my famous name.
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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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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 listen to oldies but goodies stations, ’60s and ’70s music.
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If there’s not love present, it’s much, much harder to function. When there’s love present, it’s easier to deal with life.
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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 was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.
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The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
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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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Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I’m finished with it.
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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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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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There’s nothing greater than a girl…. Well a kid, your daughter, but that’s a girl too.
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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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