Billy Corgan Quotes
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All humans are part male and part female. The other side must be explored to gain complete understanding ofourselves and the world we live in. Forme, the idea of having a feminine perspective is a willingness to be vulnerable.
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In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
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The weird nihilism that permeates Mellon Collie is extremely relevant to what's going on right now. So many kids are intelligent and articulate, but they don't know what to do with themselves.
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As a 28 year old who's lived long enough to know the difference, I know now that the feelings I felt an 16 were not necessarily correct. But however overly dramatic, the desperation and hopelessness I felt at 16 was my reality.
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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.
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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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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.
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Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.
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People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we're the same way.
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There's nothing more satisfying than going to a market and meeting the person who picked the strawberries, or it's their farm that the strawberries came from, and giving them a fair value in exchange for what they're giving you.
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Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.
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It makes me crazy to think that somebody might attack my city or any other city.
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Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.
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The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
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To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.
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I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.
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I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.
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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.
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I mean, I'm certainly not a 'teaophyte,' or whatever the word would be.
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Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.
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Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.
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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.
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To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.
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It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.
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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.
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I think it would be very interesting to see that many people would probably be okay with paying more for services and goods that they felt were more holistically [generated]. Which means the death of the old system which rewarded people for taking advantage of one another.
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The title of a song is like the wrapping on a present.
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In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.
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Why is it that all non-conformists look the same?
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You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our own demise.
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