Billy Corgan Quotes

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Billy Corgan

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 17, 1967

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

Billy Corgan

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

Billy Corgan

Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.

Billy Corgan

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

Billy Corgan

I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.

Billy Corgan

I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.

Billy Corgan

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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Soon you won't even have the choice to live or die as you wish!

Billy Corgan

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.

Billy Corgan

Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threat to you.

Billy Corgan

More than any audience in the world, Americans will cross their arms, stare at you and say, 'OK, whaddya got?' - no matter how many times you've proven it to them.

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I work differently than most people.

Billy Corgan

To me, it's the folly of man to make God human.

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In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

Billy Corgan

If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.

Billy Corgan

Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.

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I don't think people buy records because of anything that happens on Facebook. They buy records cause they're friends say 'I bought this record and I love it.'

Billy Corgan

Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.

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I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.

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I have a saying, which is, 'Crazy is good for business.' I think rock and roll really is about being a bit crazy.

Billy Corgan