Quotes by Billy Corgan

Billy Corgan

American musician, singer and songwriter

Lived from: 1967 -

Category: Music

Born: 17 march 1967

Quotes 21 till 40 of 60.

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  • Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.
    USA Today
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  • My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.
    In: Stapleton, Jim. Smashing Pumpkins (1996)
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  • My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.
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  • My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.
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  • My mother came to a Smashing Pumpkins gig once, and I was wearing a dress. She was very upset. She said, 'Everyone's gonna think you're a fag.' I said,'Well, they already think I'm an asshole.
    Rolling Stone. 23 January 1997
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  • My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.
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  • My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.
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  • My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.
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  • One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.
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  • People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it.
    In: Stapleton, Jim. Smashing Pumpkins (1996)
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  • People always called The Cure gloomy, but listening to The Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we're the same way.
    Corgan, William. Interview. Playboy (1997)
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  • People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
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  • People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.
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  • Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.
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  • Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.
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  • Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.
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  • Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.
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  • The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.
    In: Stapleton, Jim. Smashing Pumpkins (1996)
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  • The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.
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  • The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.
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