Brian Wilson Quotes
All of us have the privilege of making music that helps and heals - to make music that makes people happier, stronger and kinder. Don't forget: music is God's voice.

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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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Thank God there is a such thing as hiatus. We got the first 'Dr. Horrible' done in six days, we banged it out.
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In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.
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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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For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.
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Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.
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I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
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People often ask me why I don't take up more heroine-oriented roles. My question is, 'Where are these roles?' I really appreciate actresses who sign only films with meaty roles. However, there aren't too many of them. The industry is simply male-dominated.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
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I am a planter - a cotton planter. I am a Southern man and a slaveholder - a kind and a merciful one, I trust - and none the worse for being a slaveholder.
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Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is.
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If what I say or what I do affects others who look up to me as a role model, that pleases me so much.
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I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.
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Say it over and over until you believe it, and only then shall you become it.
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All of us have the privilege of making music that helps and heals - to make music that makes people happier, stronger and kinder. Don't forget: music is God's voice.