Billy Corgan Quotes

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Billy Corgan

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 17, 1967

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

Billy Corgan

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

Billy Corgan

I've seen foreigners really shift on their view of America, and that's hard for me to take.

Billy Corgan

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.

Billy Corgan

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

Billy Corgan

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.

Billy Corgan

I tend to be reactionary.

Billy Corgan

I've never had coffee. I've always hated the smell. It was always tea. I was a pretty typical kid, though. I grew up drinking Lipton. I didn't know there was other tea to drink.

Billy Corgan

I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

Billy Corgan

I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.'

Billy Corgan

I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.

Billy Corgan

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.

Billy Corgan

I don't want to be a dead hero.

Billy Corgan

I realize I'm a mirror.

Billy Corgan

I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.

Billy Corgan

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.

Billy Corgan

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

Billy Corgan

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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I was part of a generation that changed the world, and it was taken over by posers.

Billy Corgan

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.

Billy Corgan