Brian Wilson Quotes

I grew up walking out with no music. I wish I had the bottle to dance on but I can't dance.

I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don't know why. I just get embarrassed.

I felt like a dork growing up so this is shocking.

I could read music and sing all the right notes at the right time. And over time, I literally found my voice, found a way to make sound.

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

If I do something stupid, which is pretty much the whole time, I hate it. I just hate it.

I thought everybody had falsetto. And since I wasn't a schooled singer who studied with anybody, I just thought anybody who had a voice could do anything they wanted with their voice.

I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.

I was always singing around my house, and my parents thought they should put me into voice lessons just for fun.

It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.

Embarrassment and awkward situations are not foreign things to me.

I had been in a professional boys' choir, and as a boy soprano, you're aware that your voice has an expiration date.

I don't really experience much embarrassment.

The biggest thing is to just keep your voice in shape so that when the emotion hits, it's there to have the colors to paint those pictures with the lyrics as well as the sound.

I knew that I could sing when I was young. I would listen to a lot of jazz; I'm a big jazz fan. When I first got to high school and studied musical theater, I could sing. But I added certain things to my voice, and I realized after graduating high school that this is the kind of voice I had. It's not very nimble, but it's heavy.

I hate dancing.

My relationship to 'Rocky Horror' probably started when I was younger than my parents would like me to admit.

I started singing in a choir when I was 4 years old.

I had this voice when I was in high school, except nobody thought much of it then. I developed it by imitating singers I admired - Alison Moyet, Boy George, later on Nina Simone.

It's very embarrassing to be put on the spot.

I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.

Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.

Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there was nothing you could do to make it go away. You just had to take it, suffer from it, until it eased off.

I stood on Susan Boone's front porch, feeling lame. But then, since I've pretty much felt lame my entire life, this was no big surprise. On the other hand, usually I felt lame for no particular reason. This time I really had a reason to feel lame.