Top 306 Quotes & Sayings by Billy Corgan
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Last updated on November 22, 2024.
I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.
I don't want to be 25 again.
Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.
You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.
You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.
I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.
Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.
Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.
I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.
I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.
I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.
The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.
My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.
I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps.
I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.
Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.
I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.
I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.
I've seen foreigners really shift on their view of America, and that's hard for me to take.
Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threat to you.
I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.
In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.
I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.
I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.
If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.
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.
If I worried about appearances, I wouldn't be at Cubs games.
We've turned into a whining society.
I still believe in my country.
The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.
Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.
Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.
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.
We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.
Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.
I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.
It just doesn't work without the others.
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.
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.
The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.
You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.
I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.'
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.
My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.
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.
I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.
I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.
I didn't find Jesus. He's been there the whole time.
I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.
My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.
As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.
I realize I'm a mirror.
In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.
I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.
Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.
I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing.
I don't want to be a dead hero.
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.
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