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The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

Brian Wilson

Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I’m finished with it.
BRIAN WILSON

Children Craze Death Music Myself Summer
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.
BRIAN WILSON

Expression Feeling Honesty Lying Myself Song
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.
BRIAN WILSON

Head Ideas Myself Satisfaction Song Sound
I play piano all the time. I’m always at my piano, playing music.
BRIAN WILSON

Instrument Music Myself Piano Play
I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.
BRIAN WILSON

Curse Myself Thinking Word
You’re called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.
BRIAN WILSON

Genius Life People Yourself
I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I’ll have my feelings guide my hands.
BRIAN WILSON

Feeling Guide Hands Music Myself
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 WILSON

Deal Function Hard Life Love Myself Present
I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.
BRIAN WILSON

Financial Life Luck Myself Security
Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.
BRIAN WILSON

Experience Music Myself People Sex Thinking
The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
BRIAN WILSON

Idol Music Myself
I’m just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood – but not very often.
BRIAN WILSON

Children Myself Person Reality Retreat Talk
I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there’s a lot to be said for that way of thinking.
BRIAN WILSON

Clear Creativity Emotion Myself Term Thinking
The only reason I’d ever get a sex change operation is to see what it’s like to be right all the time.
BRIAN WILSON

Change Myself Operation Reason Right Sex Time
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.
BRIAN WILSON

Myself Past Success
I’ve never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.
BRIAN WILSON

Money Myself Note Simplicity Thinking Word Writing

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

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