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.
BRIAN WILSONAny article’s good. Long as it’s publicity, I think that’s all that matters. I think it’s advancement for my career.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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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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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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People 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.
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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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There’s nothing greater than a girl…. Well a kid, your daughter, but that’s a girl too.
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Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of ‘That Lucky Old Sun’ was inspired by ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ – not influenced, but inspired.
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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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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 still believe that something is right only when it feels right.
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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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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 have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I’ll have my feelings guide my hands.
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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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The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
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I’d earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
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