Quote #25
Being called a musical genius was a cross to bear. Genius is a big word. But if you have to live up to something, you might as well live up to that.
More from Brian Wilson
- A voice or a song can be so comforting to someone who really needs it.
- Beware the lollipop of mediocrity; lick it once and you'll suck forever.
- 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 approach my music-making as an art-form - something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is gen…
- When people hear music that is spiritual it gets through. Music that is Godlike and loving gets through. I don't have any power in this wor…
- I love restaurants. You're sitting there and all of a sudden, there's food. It's like magic.
- Spirituality amounts to love with me. I consider it the same as love. And my band members are full of love.
- I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.