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• A voice or a song can be so comforting to someone who really needs it.

• Being called a musical genius was a cross to bear. Genius is a big word. But if you have to live up to something, you might as well live up to that.

• I approach my music-making as an art-form — something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is genuine and healthy and the stimulation I get from molding it and adding dynamics is like nothing else on earth.

• I love restaurants. You're sitting there and all of a sudden, there's food. It's like magic.

• I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

• I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.

• For me, making music has always been a very spiritual thing, and I think anybody who produces records has to feel that, at least a little bit. Producing a record . . . the idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio . . . well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.

• 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.

• Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.

• To be a great producer, music has to be a big part of your soul. And when it comes to making music, if I could invent a way to get it from my heart into yours, without doing all that hard work, I would be very happy.

• You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the road. The roots are deep inside us, it's the rhythm in our soul.

• Q Magazine to Brian Wilson: Did you ever meet Charles Manson?
  Brian: Yes I did. He seemed like an OK guy, but he went and murdered some people, which was pretty bad.