Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.
BRIAN WILSONYou’re called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.
More Brian Wilson Quotes
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I’d earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
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J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There’s a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it’s like meditation.
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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 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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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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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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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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I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I’ll have my feelings guide my hands.
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You don’t really know what to believe until the Government denies it.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a hard-working guy.
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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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Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I’m finished with 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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Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.
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I believe that music is God’s voice.
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