Quotes by Billy Corgan

Billy Corgan

American musician, singer and songwriter

Lived from: 1967 -

Category: Music

Born: 17 march 1967

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  • The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.
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  • The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.
    Out on a Limb. Details Magazine. October 1996
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  • The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
    In: Stapleton, Jim. Smashing Pumpkins (1996)
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  • There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.
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  • There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got.
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  • There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.
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  • These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.
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  • This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.
    regarding Adore, Guitar World. July 1998
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  • To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.
    In: Stapleton, Jim. Smashing Pumpkins (1996)
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  • To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.
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  • Today is the greatest Day I've ever known Can't live for tomorrow, Tomorrow's much too long....
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  • We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.
    In: Stapleton, Jim. Smashing Pumpkins (1996)
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  • We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.
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  • What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.
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  • When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.
    In: Stapleton, Jim. Smashing Pumpkins (1996)
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  • You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.
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  • You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.
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  • You just reach a point sometimes with somebody where it just doesn't work.
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  • You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.
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  • Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.
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