I’m just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood – but not very often.
BRIAN WILSONIf there’s not love present, it’s much, much harder to function. When there’s love present, it’s easier to deal with life.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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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 earned my famous name.
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You don’t really know what to believe until the Government denies it.
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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 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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Humor – it helps to make the vibe better – it loosens up the vibrations.
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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 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 get off on hearing other people’s voices. I like voices: they’re my favourite things on records.
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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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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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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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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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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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