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"Solar System" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1977 album The Beach Boys Love You. It was written and sung by Brian Wilson. The lyrics discuss the Solar System in a similar vein as the band's 1965 hit "California Girls". In "Solar System", the narrator asks, "What do the planets mean? / And have you ever seen / sunrise in the mornin'? / It shined when you were born". Background Wilson stated in a 1977 interview that he conceived some of the lyrics while driving to a parents' meeting at his daughters' school. He explained that he had looked up at the sky and started thinking about the Solar System. "It's just something that came into my mind. Later on, I developed it into the song; I didn't come up with the title that night but I wrote the words in the car." In 1995, he gave a similar account and added that, when he got home, he finished the song on his piano, exclaiming, "This is a gr-eat song! These lyrics are great. This melody is great. (whistles) I've got a beauty here!" He then named it one of his favorites on The Beach Boys Love You, adding, "When I'm 90, I'm gonna be as proud of that song as I am now." In 2007, Wilson offered a different recollection of the song's genesis, saying that the song was written in his head while he was attending a weekly astrology class at UCLA.

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Notable quotes

“There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.”
— Alec Guinness in: My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor (USA: Penguin, 1998, p. 57
“The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet.”
— Chris Hadfield in: Dominique Mosbergen Astronaut Chris Hadfield Learned A Lot About Spirituality In Space, The Huffington Post , 11 July 2013.
“You were a fruit-tree after all. Imagine, then, that a billion years ago some beings from another part of the galaxy made a tour through the solar system in their flying saucer and found no life. They would dismiss it as "Just a bunch of old rocks".”
— Douglas E. Harding in: Robert Disch The ecological conscience; values for survival, Prentice-Hall, 1970, p. 188.
“Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better one myself.”
— Lord Francis Jeffrey in: Alessandra Celletti, Ettore Perozzi Celestial Mechanics: The Waltz of the Planets, Springer Science & Business Media, 24 June 2007, p. 86.
“So far as thought may peer into the past, the epic of our solar system began with a great catastrophe. Two suns met. What had been, ceased; what was to be, arose. Fatal to both progenitors, the event dated a stupendous cosmic birth.”
— Percival Lowell, "Mars as the Abode of Life" (1908), reported in North Dakota Quarterly, The Quarterly Journal - University of North Dakota, vol. 7 (1917), p. 47.

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Solar System: the Sun, its planets and their moons · 2024 documentary television series

"Solar System" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1977 album The Beach Boys Love You. It was written and sung by Brian Wilson. The lyrics discuss the Solar System in a similar vein as the band's 1965 hit "California Girls". In "Solar System", the narrator asks, "What do the planets mean? / And have you ever seen / sunrise in the mornin'? / It shined when you were born".

Overview

"Solar System" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1977 album The Beach Boys Love You. It was written and sung by Brian Wilson. The lyrics discuss the Solar System in a similar vein as the band's 1965 hit "California Girls". In "Solar System", the narrator asks, "What do the planets mean? / And have you ever seen / sunrise in the mornin'? / It shined when you were born". Background Wilson stated in a 1977 interview that he conceived some of the lyrics while driving to a parents' meeting at his daughters' school. He explained that he had looked up at the sky and started thinking about the Solar System. "It's just something that came into my mind. Later on, I developed it into the song; I didn't come up with the title that night but I wrote the words in the car." In 1995, he gave a similar account and added that, when he got home, he finished the song on his piano, exclaiming, "This is a gr-eat song! These lyrics are great. This melody is great. (whistles) I've got a beauty here!" He then named it one of his favorites on The Beach Boys Love You, adding, "When I'm 90, I'm gonna be as proud of that song as I am now." In 2007, Wilson offered a different recollection of the song's genesis, saying that the song was written in his head while he was attending a weekly astrology class at UCLA.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.”
— Alec Guinness in: My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor (USA: Penguin, 1998, p. 57
“The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet.”
— Chris Hadfield in: Dominique Mosbergen Astronaut Chris Hadfield Learned A Lot About Spirituality In Space, The Huffington Post , 11 July 2013.
“You were a fruit-tree after all. Imagine, then, that a billion years ago some beings from another part of the galaxy made a tour through the solar system in their flying saucer and found no life. They would dismiss it as "Just a bunch of old rocks".”
— Douglas E. Harding in: Robert Disch The ecological conscience; values for survival, Prentice-Hall, 1970, p. 188.
“Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better one myself.”
— Lord Francis Jeffrey in: Alessandra Celletti, Ettore Perozzi Celestial Mechanics: The Waltz of the Planets, Springer Science & Business Media, 24 June 2007, p. 86.
“So far as thought may peer into the past, the epic of our solar system began with a great catastrophe. Two suns met. What had been, ceased; what was to be, arose. Fatal to both progenitors, the event dated a stupendous cosmic birth.”
— Percival Lowell, "Mars as the Abode of Life" (1908), reported in North Dakota Quarterly, The Quarterly Journal - University of North Dakota, vol. 7 (1917), p. 47.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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