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.
BRIAN WILSONI’d earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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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 meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.
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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 was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.
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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 hate those old falsettos, I really do, and it’s embarrassing since I’ve grown up.
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I earned my famous name.
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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 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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Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.
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Humor – it helps to make the vibe better – it loosens up the vibrations.
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You’re called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.
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You don’t really know what to believe until the Government denies it.
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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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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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