Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I’m finished with it.
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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There’s nothing greater than a girl…. Well a kid, your daughter, but that’s a girl too.
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I listen to oldies but goodies stations, ’60s and ’70s music.
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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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You’re called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.
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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 play piano all the time. I’m always at my piano, playing music.
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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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I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I’ll have my feelings guide my hands.
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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’m happy; I’m a happy person.
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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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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 can write songs, I’ve had songs in movies, but I can’t compose film scores, you know?
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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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I’m not a genius. I’m just a hard-working guy.
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