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 WILSONI always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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I believe that music is God’s voice.
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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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Humor – it helps to make the vibe better – it loosens up the vibrations.
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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 consider myself to be a crusader of love. I try to spread love around the world as best I can because I know I have a handle on love.
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You’re called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.
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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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Every 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.
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I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.
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I 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.
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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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You don’t really know what to believe until the Government denies it.
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I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices saying derogatory things, like I’m terrible and I’m going to die, and they’re usually worse in the afternoon.
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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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