Top 306 Quotes & Sayings by Billy Corgan - Page 2
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Last updated on November 22, 2024.
I like my home and I like the nature.
You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.
To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.
I'm a bit weird.
You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.
I had such a big mouth for so long that it doesn't faze anybody anymore.
I mean, I'm certainly not a 'teaophyte,' or whatever the word would be.
Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.
Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.
I'm a really honest person.
Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.
I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.
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.
To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.
Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.
I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.
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.
I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.
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.
People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.
I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.
Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.
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.
I was part of a generation that changed the world, and it was taken over by posers.
I'm just an artist. I can only do so much. I can only say so much.
I tend to be reactionary.
I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.
One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.
People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.
You just reach a point sometimes with somebody where it just doesn't work.
I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.
All I can go on is my own value system.
There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.
I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.
Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.
I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.
I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.
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.
I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.
When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.
Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.
You're in a band 24 hours a day.
I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.
I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.
There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.
Music is your guide.
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
I want people to see me happy.
The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.
I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.
Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?
I'm a green-tea guy.
I'm not interested in pop art.
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.
It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.
My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.
A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.
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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