Brian Wilson Quotes
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When I can't write, it depresses me.
— Brian Wilson
I'm happy; I'm a happy person.
— Brian Wilson
Chuck Norris has been known to throw a baseball 100 mph. I've been known to throw Chuck Norris 100 mph.
— Brian Wilson
Love and mercy that's what you need tonight. Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight.
— Brian Wilson
Any article's good. Long as it's publicity, I think that's all that matters. I think it's advancement for my career.
— Brian Wilson
There's no outdoing The Beatles.
— Brian Wilson
Being single is like liking a Phil Spector record.
— Brian Wilson
Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.
— Brian Wilson
I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.
— Brian Wilson
Music is God's voice.
— Brian Wilson
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.
— Brian Wilson
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.
— Brian Wilson
Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I'm finished with it.
— Brian Wilson
I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.
— Brian Wilson
I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.
— Brian Wilson
My skills are musical, not lyrical.
— Brian Wilson
There's nothing greater than a girl ... Well a kid, your daughter, but that's a girl too.
— Brian Wilson
My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.
— Dennis Wilson
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.
— Brian Wilson
To wear a floral shirt is an experience.
— Brian Wilson
You know, Rolling Stones songs all sound kind of the same.
— Brian Wilson
I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.
— Brian Wilson
I believe that music is God's voice.
— Brian Wilson
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.
— Brian Wilson
You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the road. The roots are deep inside us, it's the rhythm in our soul.
— Brian Wilson
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.
— Brian Wilson
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.
— Brian Wilson
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.
— Brian Wilson
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.
— Brian Wilson
Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.
— Brian Wilson
I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.
— Brian Wilson
Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.
— Brian Wilson
If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.
— Brian Wilson
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.
— Brian Wilson
I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.
— Brian Wilson
I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.
— Brian Wilson
I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.
— Brian Wilson
It's like when a guy gets a divorce from his wife. You part ways. That's what I did with The Beach Boys.
— Brian Wilson
Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.
— Brian Wilson
What in the world is a hangover cure?
— Brian Wilson
I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?
— Brian Wilson
I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.
— Brian Wilson
I earned my famous name.
— Brian Wilson
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.
— Brian Wilson
I wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing high like he did.
— Brian Wilson
The only reason I'd ever get a sex change operation is to see what it's like to be right all the time.
— Brian Wilson
The audiences in the U.K. like me more than in America.
— Brian Wilson