You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the road The roots are deep inside us It’s the rhythm in our soul.
BRIAN WILSONI 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.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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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 was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.
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I’d earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
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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 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 get off on hearing other people’s voices. I like voices: they’re my favourite things on records.
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I like the piano – I’m always about 15 feet away from a piano.
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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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You don’t really know what to believe until the Government denies it.
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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 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 still believe that something is right only when it feels right.
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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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You’re called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.
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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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