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.
BRIAN WILSONYou 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.
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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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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I get off on hearing other people’s voices. I like voices: they’re my favourite things on records.
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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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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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The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
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I believe that music is God’s voice.
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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 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 can write songs, I’ve had songs in movies, but I can’t compose film scores, you know?
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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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Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.
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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’ve never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.
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