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.
BRIAN WILSONI’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.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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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 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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Love and mercy that’s what you need tonight. Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight.
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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’d earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
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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 believe that music is God’s voice.
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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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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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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’m happy; I’m a happy person.
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I play piano all the time. I’m always at my piano, playing music.
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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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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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