I play piano all the time. I’m always at my piano, playing music.
BRIAN WILSONI 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.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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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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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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So it’s 1976 and we’re still riding on our past success. I mean I’ve gone on like that for I don’t know how long.
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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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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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Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I’m finished with it.
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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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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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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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There’s nothing greater than a girl…. Well a kid, your daughter, but that’s a girl too.
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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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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 an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I’ll have my feelings guide my hands.
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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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