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Brian Wilson
American
Musician
Born:
Jun 20
,
1942
Me
Music
Song
Think
Time
You
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Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.
Brian Wilson
Good
Happy
Sunshine
Summer
Beach
Having
Having Fun
Times
Going
Means
Disneyland
Fun
I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.
Brian Wilson
Believe
Something
Only
Feels
Still
Right
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
Funny
Me
Think
Meditation
About
Something
Gives
Idea
Also
Just
Which
Meditate
Meditating
Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.
Brian Wilson
Me
Old
Sun
Inspired
Concept
Very
Gershwin
Blue
Influenced
Much
Lucky
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
You
Together
Song
Better
Try
Collaborator
Collaborators
Write
Because
Get
Get Together
Going
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
Me
You
Song
Whatever
Some
Songs
Written
Know
Because
Left
Any
Much
Many
There's no outdoing The Beatles.
Brian Wilson
Beatles
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
Politics
Stupid
Other
President
Out
Name
Know
Sure
How
Am
Goes
Even
Ear
I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.
Brian Wilson
Bit
Paranoid
Attention
Always
Lot
Get
Little
Little Bit
Used
I'm happy; I'm a happy person.
Brian Wilson
Happy
Person
Happy Person
I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.
Brian Wilson
Music
Time
Piano
Always
Play
Playing
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
Myself
Own
Chuck
Fats
Chuck Berry
Kind
Berry
Would
My Own
Stuff
How
Domino
Listen
Taught
After
Little
Richard
Little Richard
Riffs
Play
Played
I wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing high like he did.
Brian Wilson
High
Voice
He
Like
Sing
Emulate
Freshmen
Did
Wanted
Bob
Four
I earned my famous name.
Brian Wilson
Earned
Name
Famous
You know, Rolling Stones songs all sound kind of the same.
Brian Wilson
You
Kind
Songs
Know
Sound
Same
Rolling
Stones
Rolling Stones
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
Myself
You
Genius
Singing
Think
Consider
Musical
Background
Vocal
Vocals
Voice
Like
Singer
Sound
I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano.
Brian Wilson
About
Piano
Feet
Like
Always
Away
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
Me
Bass
Harmonies
Keyboard
Keyboard Player
Our
Though
Out
Brother
Piano
How
Self-Taught
Taught
Figured
Play
Player
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
Me
Gone
Think
Melody
Tried
Find
Seem
Write
Bothers
Demons
Lot
Just
Order
Need
I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?
Brian Wilson
You
Compose
Write
Had
Songs
Know
Scores
Movies
Film
When I can't write, it depresses me.
Brian Wilson
Me
Write
I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
Brian Wilson
Time
Vote
Old
Enough
Earned
Over
Dollars
Old Enough
Million
Million Dollars
By The Time
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
Death
Me
Mother
Too Much
Feelings
Think
Too
Tell
Scared
About
Invisible
Understand
Boy
Existed
Just
Vibrations
Much
Really
Meant
Used
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