Billy Corgan Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Billy Corgan

  Long, Want, Influential

  "Billy Corgan on Pumpkins' Split, "Loving" Jessica Simpson: Preview the Story". Rolling Stone Interview, www.rollingstone.com. March 3, 2010.

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• To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.

  Billy Corgan

  Escaping, Accepted, Existence

  "Smashing Pumpkins". Book by Jim Stapleton, 1996.

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

  Billy Corgan

  Strange

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• James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.

  Billy Corgan

  Band, World, Pubs

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• Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

  Billy Corgan

  Mean, Rock And Roll, Rocks

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• All humans are part male and part female. The other side must be explored to gain complete understanding ofourselves and the world we live in. Forme, the idea of having a feminine perspective is a willingness to be vulnerable.

  Billy Corgan

  Ideas, Perspective, Understanding

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• I don't know if God would agree with me, but believing in God is kind of unimportant when compared to believing in yourself. Because if you go with the idea that God gave you a mind and an ability to judge things, then he would want you to believe in yourself and not worry about believing in him. By believing in yourself you will come to the conclusion that will point to something.

  Billy Corgan

  Believe, Ideas, Worry

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• The weird nihilism that permeates Mellon Collie is extremely relevant to what's going on right now. So many kids are intelligent and articulate, but they don't know what to do with themselves.

  Billy Corgan

  Kids, Intelligent, Nihilism

  "Smashing Pumpkins: SPIN’s ‘Mellon Collie’ Cover Story, ‘Zero Worship’". Interview with Craig Marks, www.spin.com. October 23, 2015.

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

  Billy Corgan

  Views, America, Foreigners

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. June 20, 2012.

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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.

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Thinking, People

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• If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do.

  Billy Corgan

  Simple, Band, Want

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• The music is all we care about -- so if that's bad, then we're bad.

  Billy Corgan

  Care, Music Is, Ifs

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• Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Band, Pumpkin

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

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, People, Pleasure

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• I was part of a generation that changed the world - and it was taken over by poseurs.

  Billy Corgan

  Taken, Generations, World

  "Billy Corgan Rants At SXSW: ‘I Was Part Of A Generation That Changed The World’". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2012.

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

  Billy Corgan

  Mainstream Culture, Rocks, Mojo

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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

  Song, Made, Instance

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• I work differently than most people.

  Billy Corgan

  People

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• Everything about life makes me lonely.

  Billy Corgan

  Lonely

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• You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our own demise.

  Billy Corgan

  Eye, Rocks, Long

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• Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

  Billy Corgan

  Teacher, Lying, School

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Memories, Thinking, Atmosphere

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• I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much wiped out.

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, People, Addiction

  "Smashing Pumpkins". Book by Jim Stapleton, 1996.

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• My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.

  Billy Corgan

  Children, Memories, Parent

  "Smashing Pumpkins: Fully Illustrated Book & Interview Disc". Book by Jim Stapleton, 1996.

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• I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not by being whatever. Sometimes I act like a jerk, but I think people respect me for being myself. That's the ultimate thing about the Smashing Pumpkins.

  Billy Corgan

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

  Dirt Magazine, 1992.

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