Billy Corgan Quotes

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Billy Corgan

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 17, 1967

I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.

Billy Corgan

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.

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Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

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I'm just an artist. I can only do so much. I can only say so much.

Billy Corgan

I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory.

Billy Corgan

I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.

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Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

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To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.

Billy Corgan

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.

Billy Corgan

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.

Billy Corgan

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.

Billy Corgan

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

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I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

Billy Corgan

You just reach a point sometimes with somebody where it just doesn't work.

Billy Corgan

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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These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

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I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

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I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.

Billy Corgan

I'm not interested in pop art.

Billy Corgan