I’ve never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.
BRIAN WILSONLove and mercy that’s what you need tonight. Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight.
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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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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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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Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I’m finished with it.
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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’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 still believe that something is right only when it feels right.
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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 listen to oldies but goodies stations, ’60s and ’70s music.
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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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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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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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Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.
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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 believe that music is God’s voice.
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