I can write songs, I’ve had songs in movies, but I can’t compose film scores, you know?
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’m happy; I’m a happy person.
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I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.
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I believe that music is God’s voice.
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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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J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There’s a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it’s like meditation.
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I’m just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood – but not very often.
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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 always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.
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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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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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Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.
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The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
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I wake up in the morning and I say ‘Ahh! Today’s the day for a song! I’m going to write a song today!’ And I do. I write a song.
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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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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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