Billy Corgan Quotes

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Billy Corgan

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 17, 1967

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

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I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.

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Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.

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I want people to see me happy.

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I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.

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I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.

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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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A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

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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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When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.

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You're in a band 24 hours a day.

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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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In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.

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Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.

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Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.

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I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

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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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I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

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There's a lot of days where you feel forgotten.

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I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour.

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