Brian Wilson Quotes

When I can't write, it depresses me.

I'm happy; I'm a happy person.

Chuck Norris has been known to throw a baseball 100 mph. I've been known to throw Chuck Norris 100 mph.

I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano.

Love and mercy that's what you need tonight. Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight.

Any article's good. Long as it's publicity, I think that's all that matters. I think it's advancement for my career.

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

There's no outdoing The Beatles.

Being single is like liking a Phil Spector record.

Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.

I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.

I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.

Music is God's voice.

I consider myself to be a crusader of love. I try to spread love around the world as best I can because I know I have a handle on love.

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.

Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I'm finished with it.

I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.

I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.

My skills are musical, not lyrical.

There's nothing greater than a girl ... Well a kid, your daughter, but that's a girl too.

Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.

You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the road. The roots are deep inside us, it's the rhythm in our soul.

I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.

If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.

Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.

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.

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.

You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough to come up with a really good song.

Probably not much of a song left in me, you know, if any, because I've written so many, some 250 songs or 300 or whatever it is.

You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.

I believe that music is God's voice.

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.

I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.

You know, Rolling Stones songs all sound kind of the same.

To wear a floral shirt is an experience.

If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.

I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music.

Politics goes in one ear and out the other. I don't even know the president's name for sure. That's how stupid I am.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.

I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.

It's like when a guy gets a divorce from his wife. You part ways. That's what I did with The Beach Boys.

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.

Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.

Humor - it helps to make the vibe better - it loosens up the vibrations.

What in the world is a hangover cure?

I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?

I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.

I earned my famous name.

I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.

My brother Carl taught me how to play bass. I'm a self-taught keyboard player, though - I figured out our harmonies at the piano.

I wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing high like he did.

The only reason I'd ever get a sex change operation is to see what it's like to be right all the time.

I hate those old falsettos, I really do, and it's embarrassing since I've grown up.

I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.

You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it.

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.

The audiences in the U.K. like me more than in America.