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.
BRIAN WILSONYou don’t really know what to believe until the Government denies it.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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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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I’m happy; I’m a happy person.
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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’m not a genius. I’m just a hard-working guy.
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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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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 have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I’ll have my feelings guide my hands.
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I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.
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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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I like the piano – I’m always about 15 feet away from a piano.
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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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Love and mercy that’s what you need tonight. Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight.
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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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