“Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.”
― Brian Wilson
“What in the world is a hangover cure?”
― Brian Wilson
“To wear a floral shirt is an experience.”
― 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
“I’m not a genius. I’m just a hard-working guy.”
― Brian Wilson
“The keyboard is my whole life. My life is centered around either sitting at my keyboard or driving my car. Those are the two most important things, more than anything else. Being at my keyboard, it’s the happiest time for me.”
― Brian Wilson
“First of all, I want people to understand that I’m here to create for them. To create music for people so they’ll know that I’m a source of love. And they can depend on my name.”
― Brian Wilson
“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.”
― Brian Wilson
“I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.”
― Brian Wilson
“The Beach Boys have always been a part of the ’60s spectrum, with The Beatles and that kind of thing. They were a part of the music business like everyone else. And they did quite well as a singing group, and I finished a lot of good records, and I’m very proud of them.”
― Brian Wilson
“I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there’s a lot to be said for that way of thinking.”
― 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
“I’m just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood – but not very often.”
― 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
“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
“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
“I believe that writers run out of material, I really do. I believe very strongly in the fact that when the natural time is up, writers actually do run out of material. To me it’s black and white. When there’s a song there’s a song, when there’s not there’s not.”
― 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
“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
“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
“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
“Don’t get married until you’re certain that you’re marrying the right girl. How did I know my wife was the one? I’d seen her for a couple of months. I liked her. She was a very creative person and she had a very good grip on politics and business.”
― Brian Wilson
“The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.”
― Brian Wilson
“I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.”
― 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’m happy; I’m a happy person.”
― Brian Wilson
“The audiences in the U.K. like me more than in America.”
― Brian Wilson
“I play piano all the time. I’m always at my piano, playing music.”
― Brian Wilson
“I would listen to Little Richard and Fats Domino and Chuck Berry, and I would listen to how they played their riffs, and after I taught myself that, I taught myself to play my own kind of stuff.”
― 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
“My skills are musical, not lyrical.”
― Brian Wilson
“I earned my famous name.”
― Brian Wilson
“I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.”
― Brian Wilson
“You know, Rolling Stones songs all sound kind of the same.”
― Brian Wilson
“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.”
― 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 I’m a vocal genius, not a musical genius. I like background vocals. I consider myself a voice, not a singer. A voice is a sound, and singing is what you do with that sound.”
― Brian Wilson
“You want to know my real pleasure? Food. I love chocolate. I can’t get enough chocolate. I can’t help it. But my biggest pleasure of all is exercise. I really get off on exercise.”
― Brian Wilson
“I like the piano – I’m always about 15 feet away from a piano.”
― Brian Wilson
“I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There’s a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it’s like meditation.”
― 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 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
“I listen to oldies but goodies stations, ’60s and ’70s music.”
― Brian Wilson
“I get off on hearing other people’s voices. I like voices: they’re my favourite things on records.”
― Brian Wilson
“I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I’ve tried and tried, but I just can’t seem to find a melody.”
― 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
“I can write songs, I’ve had songs in movies, but I can’t compose film scores, you know?”
― Brian Wilson
“When I can’t write, it depresses me.”
― Brian Wilson
“I’d earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.”
― Brian Wilson
“My mother used to tell me about vibrations. I didn’t really understand too much of what that meant when I was just a boy. To think that invisible feelings, invisible vibrations existed scared me to death.”
― Brian Wilson
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