“I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.”
Music
“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.”
BusinessAll Quotes by Billy Corgan
“One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.”
Communication“There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.”
Technology“I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.”
Cool“I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.”
Car“There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.”
Cool“Music is your guide.”
Music“The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.”
Funny“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.”
Business“The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.”
Business“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.”
Music“Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.”
Peace“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.”
Death“I'm from a lower middle class background all my family were immigrants.”
Family“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.”
Death“Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.”
Trust“To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.”
Music“You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.”
Music“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.”
Family“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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