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 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.
Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.
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.
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.
J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation.
Timothy White was the best friend an artist could ever have. The music business lost a true giant when we lost Timothy so suddenly.
I have rarely felt so welcomed in such a wonderful community that has given so much music to so many of us.
I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation.
The last thing I would ever want to do is offend my favorite pop musical genius icon,
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.
You know, Rolling Stones songs all sound kind of the same.