Brian Wilson Quotes
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Humor - it helps to make the vibe better - it loosens up the vibrations.
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Take all the time you need It's a lovely night If you decide to come You're gonna do it right.
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Being single is like liking a Phil Spector record.
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Spirituality amounts to love with me. I consider it the same as love. And my band members are full of love.
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I believe that music is God's voice.
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I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano.
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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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I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program during the '80s and then I met Melinda and we've been together ever since. I've got a happy life.
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It's funny how people are pickin' up on our music now, you know? I think it's wonderful that people like our music.
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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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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 wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing high like he did.
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Chuck Norris has been known to throw a baseball 100 mph. I've been known to throw Chuck Norris 100 mph.
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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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Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I'm finished with it.
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We wanted to bring some love to the world. I thought we were good at doing that. Bringin' love to the world.
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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 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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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'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
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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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When people hear music that is spiritual it gets through. Music that is Godlike and loving gets through. I don’t have any power in this world, but I have spiritual power. I think God gave me my music and my talent. I’m trying to get across a feeling of spirituality; I think I have a spiritual influence on people.
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The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
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I was very, very surprised. I never thought I would be that loved or respected.