Brian Wilson Quotes
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Any article's good. Long as it's publicity, I think that's all that matters. I think it's advancement for my career.
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I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.
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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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Freedom and Liberty cannot exist without Individual Responsibilty. Failure to exercise Individual Responsibilty forfeits your right to self-governance and delivers it to Government which, through force, will set the parameters of your life.
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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.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.
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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 listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music.
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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 still believe that something is right only when it feels right.
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You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.
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I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.
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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 was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.
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I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is genuine and healthy and the stimulation I get from molding it and adding dynamics is like nothing else on earth.
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I'm happy; I'm a happy person.
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I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano.
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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 have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.
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You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the road The roots are deep inside us It's the rhythm in our soul.
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Humor - it helps to make the vibe better - it loosens up the vibrations.
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I earned my famous name.
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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 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 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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I hate those old falsettos, I really do, and it's embarrassing since I've grown up.
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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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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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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 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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