I can write songs, I’ve had songs in movies, but I can’t compose film scores, you know?
BRIAN WILSONSurfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I’m finished with it.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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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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If there’s not love present, it’s much, much harder to function. When there’s love present, it’s easier to deal with life.
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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’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 happy; I’m a happy person.
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I believe that music is God’s voice.
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Any article’s good. Long as it’s publicity, I think that’s all that matters. I think it’s advancement for my career.
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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 get off on hearing other people’s voices. I like voices: they’re my favourite things on records.
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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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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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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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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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I’m not a genius. I’m just a hard-working guy.
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