Dennis Wilson Quotes

If you want to know more about who I am, just listen to my music.

If you want to know me, listen to my music.

You cannot be known Better than I know you.

I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.

Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life; not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.

But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet made anyone fly.

Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.

Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.

She used to say 'You can be whoever you want, even yourself'.... Yeah, I show up knowin exactly who I was and never leave as myself

It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.

Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.

You have to be who you are when you do music.

You can listen to 'Cosmic' and truly get to know me, which I think is special.

I'm not what I make.

This music really is us. We're not, like, a manufactured version.

I tell everybody, 'If you want to get to know me, if you listen to those three records, you'll have a really good idea.' They were released at different time periods in my life, and those are the things I was going through.

I've never been about just trying to do what works. I've been about trying to authentically express how I feel.

We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.

Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment.

I just wanna be myself, and I want you to love me for who I am

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.