I earned my famous name.
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’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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Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.
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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 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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I can write songs, I’ve had songs in movies, but I can’t compose film scores, you know?
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Humor – it helps to make the vibe better – it loosens up the vibrations.
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I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.
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I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a hard-working guy.
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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 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 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 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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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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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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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 play piano all the time. I’m always at my piano, playing music.
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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 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 like the piano – I’m always about 15 feet away from a piano.
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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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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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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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Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I’m finished with 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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