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“I believe that music is God’s voice.”
― Brian Wilson

“In my sixties I did what I couldn’t do in my twenties.”
― Brian Wilson, I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir

“You wouldn’t think this, but I almost never went to the beach as a kid, even though it was only a few miles away. The first time I ever went to the ocean I couldn’t believe it. My dad took us, and I was so scared at the size of the ocean. Also, I had light skin that burned easily and I didn’t like squinting against the sun for hours. Once I went with my friend Rich Sloan and I kept my jeans on so the sun couldn’t get to me. And there was barely any surfing either. I tried once and got conked on the head with the board. So Los Angeles and California were more about the idea of going in the ocean than they were about actually going in the ocean. I liked to look at it, though. It was sort of like a piece of music: each of the waves was moving around by itself, but they were also moving together.”
― Brian Wilson, I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir

“When I go on the road, I take another chair with me, a black leather recliner, so that I can have the feel of home. I have them set it up on the wings of the stage and I sit there instead of in the dressing room. Some”
― Brian Wilson, I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir

“Any minute playing “Good Vibrations” is a minute that I feel spiritually whole. I hope that any minute hearing it is the same.”
― Brian Wilson, I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir