Any article’s good. Long as it’s publicity, I think that’s all that matters. I think it’s advancement for my career.
BRIAN WILSONIf you’re going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it’s better to write with collaborators.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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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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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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Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.
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You’re called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.
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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 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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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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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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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 play piano all the time. I’m always at my piano, playing music.
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I like the piano – I’m always about 15 feet away from a piano.
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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’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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Humor – it helps to make the vibe better – it loosens up the vibrations.
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