Top 80 Quotes & Sayings by Brian Wilson - Page 2

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Being single is like liking a Phil Spector record.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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