Best 44 quotes of Brian Wilson on MyQuotes

All of the artists did such a beautiful job I can’t thank them enough. I’m just honored that 'God Only Knows' was chosen. 'God Only Knows' is a very special song. An extremely spiritual song and one of the best I’ve ever written.

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

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

Freedom and Liberty cannot exist without Individual Responsibilty. Failure to exercise Individual Responsibilty forfeits your right to self-governance and delivers it to Government which, through force, will set the parameters of your life.

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.

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

I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is genuine and healthy and the stimulation I get from molding it and adding dynamics is like nothing else on earth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices saying derogatory things, like I'm terrible and I'm going to die, and they're usually worse in the afternoon.

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.

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

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

I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program during the '80s and then I met Melinda and we've been together ever since. I've got a happy life.

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.

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

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

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

I sit and I write automatically. I don't really try to write. My subconscious mind takes over and writes the songs for me. Songs come very easily for me. When I'm inspired, it takes me 20 minutes to write a song.

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

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.

I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.

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.

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

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

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

People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation in nature and sunshine and so on...like 'California Girls' which was a hymn to youth.

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.

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

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

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

The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio...well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.

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

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

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

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

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.