I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I’ll have my feelings guide my hands.
BRIAN WILSONI like the piano – I’m always about 15 feet away from a piano.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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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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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’ve never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.
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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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I earned my famous name.
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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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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 get off on hearing other people’s voices. I like voices: they’re my favourite things on records.
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I’m happy; I’m a happy person.
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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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All of the artists did such a beautiful job I can’t thank them enough. I’m just honored that ‘God Only Knows’ was chosen. ‘God Only Knows’ is a very special song. An extremely spiritual song and one of the best I’ve ever written.
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You don’t really know what to believe until the Government denies it.
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Love and mercy that’s what you need tonight. Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight.
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I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.
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