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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
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Brian Wilson
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: June 20
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Inglewood
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Brian Douglas Wilson
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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.
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Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I'm finished with it.
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If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.
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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.
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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.
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Humor - it helps to make the vibe better - it loosens up the vibrations.
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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.
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The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
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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.
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I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
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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.
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I earned my famous name.
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Love and mercy that's what you need tonight. Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight.
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I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?
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I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.
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I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.
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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.
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You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.
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You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it.
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