I’d earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
BRIAN WILSONSome people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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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 think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.
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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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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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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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I’ve never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.
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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 like the piano – I’m always about 15 feet away from a piano.
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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 Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
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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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I’m happy; I’m a happy person.
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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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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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If you’re going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it’s better to write with collaborators.
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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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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 believe that music is God’s voice.
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Humor – it helps to make the vibe better – it loosens up the vibrations.
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I earned my famous name.
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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 think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.
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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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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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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 have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I’ll have my feelings guide my hands.
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