The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
BRIAN WILSONI have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I’ll have my feelings guide my hands.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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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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Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I’m finished with it.
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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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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 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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Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.
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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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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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I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.
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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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Love and mercy that’s what you need tonight. Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight.
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I listen to oldies but goodies stations, ’60s and ’70s music.
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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 hate those old falsettos, I really do, and it’s embarrassing since I’ve grown up.
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