Billy Corgan Quotes - Page 5

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• If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

  Billy Corgan

  Mean, Resistance, Ifs

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

  Billy Corgan

  People, Sentimental, Remember

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• I didn't find Jesus. He's been there the whole time.

  Billy Corgan

  Jesus, Whole

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• Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.

  Billy Corgan

  People, Giving, Needs

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• Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.

  Billy Corgan

  Live Life, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.

  Billy Corgan

  Trying, Fit, Strive

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• I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.

  Billy Corgan

  Mean, Journey, Artist

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• Well, we have brought certain things upon ourselves. I've certainly brought things upon us with my mouth.

  Billy Corgan

  Mouths, Certain, Wells

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

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• There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got.

  Billy Corgan

  Differences, Kind, Shows

  Interview with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2005.

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• Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing. And [the public] actually puts all their energy into reasserting or re-establishing what the artist has long ago left behind. Because that's what they want. The source of creativity, the gift that's been given, be damned.

  Billy Corgan

  Creativity, Artist, Long Ago

  "A Conversation With Billy Corgan Part II". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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.

  Billy Corgan

  Father, Player, Guitar

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• I hate how in magazine pictures, they always stick me somewhere in the back. It means they don't think I'm the cute one.

  Billy Corgan

  Cute, Hate, Mean

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• There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.

  Billy Corgan

  Artist, Technology, Stories

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• 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

  Reality, Ideas, Intellectual

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• You give me a @#$%& kazoo and I'll write you a good song.

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Writing, Giving

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• Time is never time at all. You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth. And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same. The more you change, the less you feel.

  Billy Corgan

  Forever, Leaving, Pieces

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• For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

  Billy Corgan

  Critical Spirit, Levels, Littles

  Interview with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2005.

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• I don't think I'm before my time, I just don't think I'm in my time.

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, My Time

  "A Conversation With Billy Corgan Part II". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, Too Much, Guilty

  "A Conversation With Billy Corgan Part II". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm passionate about creating new systems that are more holistic to humankind. What do I mean by that? I mean, create new systems of business so that people with ethics both exploit their goods and their gifts while not exploiting the earth, exploiting one another.

  Billy Corgan

  Mean, Creating, People

  "A Conversation with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.

  Billy Corgan

  Roots, Trade, Interaction

  "A Conversation with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.

  Billy Corgan

  Belief, Sometimes, Our Family

  "A Conversation with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Like any form of death, at some point you just have to get up and say yeah I'll take it, whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen and sorta chop your head off. It's easy to avoid all that...there's always another moment, another girl, another high, another drug, there's always something to distract you.

  Billy Corgan

  Girl, Drug, Moments

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Everybody likes to run around on their phones, including me, but we don't always want to hear who's sweating somewhere in some non-air-conditioned factory to create those things so that they can keep the prices down.

  Billy Corgan

  Running, Phones, Air

  "A Conversation with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think humankind is going to have to evolve into systems that are more transparent. Then people will be able to make more integral choices about the food they eat.

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, People, Choices

  "A Conversation with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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