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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Beach Boys have always been a part of the '60s spectrum, with The Beatles and that kind of thing. They were a part of the music business like everyone else. And they did quite well as a singing group, and I finished a lot of good records, and I'm very proud of them.
Megan is our new coach for the beginner program of the Piranhas, and she did a great job. This was our biggest club year, with a number of team records, and I attribute a lot of the success to her, because she got our younger swimmers going quick.
So I called him up! ... I was surprised that he said he didn't think I was involved because I really was. So I called him up.
Now, they can at least know that in the California market, something will be in place for 10 years.
Obviously, my first goal is to win the event, but I had it in the back of my mind that I could break the record, so that was a goal and I'm disappointed I fell short in the event.
I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano.
I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.
Any article's good. Long as it's publicity, I think that's all that matters. I think it's advancement for my career.
I consider myself to be a crusader of love. I try to spread love around the world as best I can because I know I have a handle on love.