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

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Source : Domenic Priore, Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks (2005). “Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece”, p.73, Omnibus Press

Brian Wilson

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“I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.”
“Brother, you can believe in stones, as long as you don't throw them at me. You are free to worship whoever you want, but other people's beliefs are not your concern, whether they believe that the Messiah is God, son of Mary, or that Satan is God, son of Mary. Let people have their beliefs.”

Source : Interview on Al Jazeera TV, February 2006.
“Divine service, being the high contemplation of the mind, is at the same time, and pre-eminently, the peace, the sweetness and blessedness of the heart.”
“I wrote a great deal during the next ten [early] years,but very little of any importance; there are not more than four or five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.”
“It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.”
“The more that I work with people that I don't know, the more I invite somebody in who's potentially going to really hate being there.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Sometimes I think with the telephone that if I concentrate enough I could pour myself into it and I'd be turned into a mist and I would rematerialize in the room of the person I'm talking to. Is that too odd for you?”
“To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.”

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