Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I’m finished with it.
BRIAN WILSONI think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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Any article’s good. Long as it’s publicity, I think that’s all that matters. I think it’s advancement for my career.
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I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I’ll have my feelings guide my hands.
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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’m not a genius. I’m just a hard-working guy.
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All of the artists did such a beautiful job I can’t thank them enough. I’m just honored that ‘God Only Knows’ was chosen. ‘God Only Knows’ is a very special song. An extremely spiritual song and one of the best I’ve ever written.
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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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There’s nothing greater than a girl…. Well a kid, your daughter, but that’s a girl too.
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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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