If you’re going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it’s better to write with collaborators.
BRIAN WILSONIf you’re going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it’s better to write with collaborators.
BRIAN WILSONThe Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
BRIAN WILSONI’d earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
BRIAN WILSONI can write songs, I’ve had songs in movies, but I can’t compose film scores, you know?
BRIAN WILSONI like the piano – I’m always about 15 feet away from a piano.
BRIAN WILSONI’ve never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.
BRIAN WILSONI hate those old falsettos, I really do, and it’s embarrassing since I’ve grown up.
BRIAN WILSONI 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.
BRIAN WILSONI’m just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood – but not very often.
BRIAN WILSONThe only reason I’d ever get a sex change operation is to see what it’s like to be right all the time.
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.
BRIAN WILSONI’m not a genius. I’m just a hard-working guy.
BRIAN WILSONI get off on hearing other people’s voices. I like voices: they’re my favourite things on records.
BRIAN WILSONPeople 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.
BRIAN WILSONI have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I’ll have my feelings guide my hands.
BRIAN WILSONI think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.
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