Brian Wilson
Brian Wilson
Brian Douglas Wilsonis an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer best known for being the multi-tasking leader and co-founder of the Beach Boys. After signing with Capitol Records in 1962, Wilson wrote or co-wrote more than two dozen Top 40 hits for the group. Because of his unorthodox approaches to song composition and arrangement and mastery of recording techniques, he is widely acknowledged as one of the most innovative and influential creative forces in popular music by critics and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth20 June 1942
CountryUnited States of America
I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.
I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.
If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.
I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.
I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.
I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano.
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.
First of all, I want people to understand that I'm here to create for them. To create music for people so they'll know that I'm a source of love. And they can depend on my name.
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.
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.
The keyboard is my whole life. My life is centered around either sitting at my keyboard or driving my car. Those are the two most important things, more than anything else. Being at my keyboard, it's the happiest time for me.
You want to know my real pleasure? Food. I love chocolate. I can't get enough chocolate. I can't help it. But my biggest pleasure of all is exercise. I really get off on exercise.
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.