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.
BRIAN WILSONIf there’s not love present, it’s much, much harder to function. When there’s love present, it’s easier to deal with life.
BRIAN WILSONJ.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There’s a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it’s like meditation.
BRIAN WILSONI 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.
BRIAN WILSONYou 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.
BRIAN WILSONEvery 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.
BRIAN WILSONSo 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.
BRIAN WILSONI earned my famous name.
BRIAN WILSONThe Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
BRIAN WILSONYou’re called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.
BRIAN WILSONThere’s nothing greater than a girl…. Well a kid, your daughter, but that’s a girl too.
BRIAN WILSONI like the piano – I’m always about 15 feet away from a piano.
BRIAN WILSONI can write songs, I’ve had songs in movies, but I can’t compose film scores, you know?
BRIAN WILSONI think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.
BRIAN WILSONYou don’t really know what to believe until the Government denies it.
BRIAN WILSONI still believe that something is right only when it feels right.
BRIAN WILSONI’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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