Brian Wilson Quotes
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
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I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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And we believe in democracy - that the only real source of legitimacy is the consent of the people; that every individual is born equal with fundamental rights, inalienable rights, and that it is the responsibility of governments to uphold these rights.
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The art of medicine has its roots in the heart. If your heart is false, then also the doctor in you is false. If it is fair, then also the doctor is fair.
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I'm terrified of missing my call time. I'll check my alarm several times before I fall asleep.
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Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
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The fact is that viewers are fickle and it's rare that such a large group of people can be categorized in any type of way. There's enough content to go around, and if we stop focusing on numbers and start focusing on the quality of the project, then I think everybody - viewers and artists alike - is going to be a lot happier.
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I believe that music is God's voice.
