I listen to oldies but goodies stations, ’60s and ’70s music.
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.
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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 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’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 think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.
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You don’t really know what to believe until the Government denies it.
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I 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.
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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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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 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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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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Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.
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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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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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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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I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.
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