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.
BRIAN WILSONThe Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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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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Humor – it helps to make the vibe better – it loosens up the vibrations.
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I like the piano – I’m always about 15 feet away from a piano.
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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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Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.
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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 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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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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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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You don’t really know what to believe until the Government denies it.
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I play piano all the time. I’m always at my piano, playing music.
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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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Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of ‘That Lucky Old Sun’ was inspired by ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ – not influenced, but inspired.
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I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.
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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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