Billy Corgan famous quotes

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.
-- Billy Corgan

#Spiritual #Recovery #Journey

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.
-- Billy Corgan

#Great Music #Genre

I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.
-- Billy Corgan

#Sick #Attacking #Valuable

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?
-- Billy Corgan

#Rocks #Years #Rock And Roll

We had a wonderful time with this kind of grunge awareness, where suddenly rock was cool again. People wanted to head loud guitars. It was a great time, and I'm glad we were there. But the gimmick part has worn off.
-- Billy Corgan

#Rocks #Guitar #People

To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence
-- Billy Corgan

#Escaping #Accepted #Existence

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

#Real #Light #Roots

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.
-- Billy Corgan

#Past #Thinking #Way

Most great records really start with the drums.
-- Billy Corgan

#Records

I was part of a generation that changed the world, and it was taken over by posers.
-- Billy Corgan

#Taken #Generations #World

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.
-- Billy Corgan

#Spiritual #Rocks #Want

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.
-- Billy Corgan

#Responsibility #Long #Needs

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

#People #Sometimes #Good Things

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.
-- Billy Corgan

#Two #Floating #World

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

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 #Artist #Journey

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 #Rocks #Rock And Roll

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

#Jesus #Forgiving #Teach

Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose
-- Billy Corgan

#Judging #Standards

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.
-- Billy Corgan

#People #Musician #Want

I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour.
-- Billy Corgan

#Baby #Hands #Hours

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.
-- Billy Corgan

#Grew Up #Grew

We've turned into a whining society.
-- Billy Corgan

#Whining

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.
-- Billy Corgan

#Play #Kind

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.
-- Billy Corgan

#Generations #Looks #Done

I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.
-- Billy Corgan

#Thinking #Rocks #Prepared

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.
-- Billy Corgan

#People #Appreciate #Trying

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.
-- Billy Corgan

#Feet #Church #Going To Church

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

#Believe #Mean #Playing Music

I'm not interested in pop art.
-- Billy Corgan

#Art #Pops #Not Interested

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

#Class #Kind #Fit

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.
-- Billy Corgan

#Catholic #Roman Catholic #Baptized

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.
-- Billy Corgan

#Trying #Persons

Shave your head, wear a 'ZERO' shirt. Take away your identity. What do you have? You still have yourself.
-- Billy Corgan

#Zero #Identity #Shirts

Everything about life makes me lonely.
-- Billy Corgan

#Lonely

Once a pumpkin, Always a pumpkin.
-- Billy Corgan

#Pumpkin

There's a lot of UFO sightings in New Orleans, which isn't really too surprising. There's a lotta crazy people there. The people there lack the intelligence to know what they are seeing, so that's why the UFO's go there.
-- Billy Corgan

#Crazy #New Orleans #People

Been there, done that, seen it, heard it, pissed on it.
-- Billy Corgan

#Done #Heard

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.
-- Billy Corgan

#Mother #Growing Up #Real

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.'
-- Billy Corgan

#Basketball #Football #Kids

To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.
-- Billy Corgan

#Fun #Years #Arms

You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.
-- Billy Corgan

#Fun #Kind #Adapting

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.
-- Billy Corgan

#Teamwork #Thinking #Feet

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.
-- Billy Corgan

#Running #People #Romance

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.
-- Billy Corgan

#Winning #Cities #Organization

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.
-- Billy Corgan

#Jesus #Life Is Good #Guy

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.
-- Billy Corgan

#Ideas #Musical #Needs

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.
-- Billy Corgan

#Christian #Thinking #Light

Today is the greatest Day I've ever known Can't live for tomorrow, Tomorrow's much too long...
-- Billy Corgan

#Long #Today #Tomorrow

In 1992, with the weight of a perceived world on our shoulders, we disappeared into a parking garage to write the songs that would change the course of our lives forever. 'Siamese Dream' represents all of our dreams coming true, while the dreams of a happy band fell apart.
-- Billy Corgan

#Dream #Song #Writing

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

#House #Sticks #Emotion

This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.
-- Billy Corgan

#Negative #World #Reactions

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.
-- Billy Corgan

#Vaccines #Behinds

I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.
-- Billy Corgan

#Country #Thinking #Moral

I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps.
-- Billy Corgan

#Character

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

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.
-- Billy Corgan

#Idols #Hue #Problem

I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.
-- Billy Corgan

#Pumpkin #Smashing #Plans

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

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.
-- Billy Corgan

#Character #People #Mind

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

#Believe #Ideas #Should

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
-- Billy Corgan

#Artist #Good Artist #Willing

You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.
-- Billy Corgan

#Great Relationship #Ready

Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
-- Billy Corgan

#Effectiveness #Calm #Debate