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 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.
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.
To wear a floral shirt is an experience.
It's like when a guy gets a divorce from his wife. You part ways. That's what I did with The Beach Boys.
You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough to come up with a really good song.
I think I'm a vocal genius, not a musical genius. I like background vocals. I consider myself a voice, not a singer. A voice is a sound, and singing is what you do with that sound.
You know, Rolling Stones songs all sound kind of the same.
Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.
Don't get married until you're certain that you're marrying the right girl. How did I know my wife was the one? I'd seen her for a couple of months. I liked her. She was a very creative person and she had a very good grip on politics and business.
What in the world is a hangover cure?