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.
BRIAN WILSONI’m just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood – but not very often.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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I play piano all the time. I’m always at my piano, playing music.
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I’ve never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.
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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 think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.
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I’d earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
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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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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 get off on hearing other people’s voices. I like voices: they’re my favourite things on records.
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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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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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I can write songs, I’ve had songs in movies, but I can’t compose film scores, you know?
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I’m happy; I’m a happy person.
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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 listen to oldies but goodies stations, ’60s and ’70s music.
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