I believe that music is God’s voice.
BRIAN WILSONI like the piano – I’m always about 15 feet away from a piano.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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If you’re going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it’s better to write with collaborators.
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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 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’d earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
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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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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.
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I play piano all the time. I’m always at my piano, playing music.
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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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Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I’m finished with it.
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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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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 have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I’ll have my feelings guide my hands.
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I wake up in the morning and I say ‘Ahh! Today’s the day for a song! I’m going to write a song today!’ And I do. I write a song.
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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.
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Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.
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