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 WILSONI meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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Humor – it helps to make the vibe better – it loosens up the vibrations.
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I listen to oldies but goodies stations, ’60s and ’70s music.
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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 hate those old falsettos, I really do, and it’s embarrassing since I’ve grown up.
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I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there’s a lot to be said for that way of thinking.
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I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.
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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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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’m not a genius. I’m just a hard-working guy.
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You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the road The roots are deep inside us It’s the rhythm in our soul.
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I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.
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I play piano all the time. I’m always at my piano, playing music.
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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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I believe that music is God’s voice.
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You say how you feel, and songs don’t lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is–there’s nothing that lies about a song.
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