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Billy Corgan

I'm not interested in pop art.

-Billy Corgan

art

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.

-Billy Corgan

attitude

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

-Billy Corgan

business

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.

-Billy Corgan

business

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

-Billy Corgan

car

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

-Billy Corgan

communication

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

-Billy Corgan

cool

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

-Billy Corgan

cool

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

-Billy Corgan

death

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.

-Billy Corgan

death

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.

-Billy Corgan

death

I'm from a lower middle class background all my family were immigrants.

-Billy Corgan

family

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

family

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

-Billy Corgan

fear

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

-Billy Corgan

fear

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

-Billy Corgan

funny

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

-Billy Corgan

funny

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

god

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

-Billy Corgan

great

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

-Billy Corgan

home

I like my home and I like the nature.

-Billy Corgan

home

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

hope

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

movingon

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

-Billy Corgan

music

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

-Billy Corgan

music

When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.

-Billy Corgan

music

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.

-Billy Corgan

music

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

-Billy Corgan

music

Music is your guide.

-Billy Corgan

music

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

music

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

-Billy Corgan

music

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.

-Billy Corgan

music

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.

-Billy Corgan

music

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.

-Billy Corgan

music

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.

-Billy Corgan

music

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

I'm not interested in pop art.

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.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

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.

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

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

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

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.

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.

I'm from a lower middle class background all my family were immigrants.

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.

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

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

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

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

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.

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

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

I like my home and I like the nature.

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.

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.

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.

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

Music is your guide.

I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.

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

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.

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.

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.

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.

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.

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