American - Musician | June 20, 1942 -
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music.
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Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.
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It's like when a guy gets a divorce from his wife. You part ways. That's what I did with The Beach Boys.
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Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.
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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.
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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.
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