Billy Corgan Quotes

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature. - Billy Corgan

You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way. - Billy Corgan

You can't be greater than Elvis, change things as much as the Beatles, or be as original as Led Zeppelin. All you can do is rip them off. - Billy Corgan

What has gone on in my childhood, and the personal problems that we've had in the band, have given a lot of people hope. (It shows) if you keep your nose pointed straight you can actually get somewhere -- to a happy place. - Billy Corgan

Well, what we usually do is in every city we got to, we hire a fifteen-year-old boy and we turn it up until he starts to make a funny face, then we turn it up about ten notches higher than that. - Billy Corgan

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

There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got. - Billy Corgan

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

The band is basically modeled upon what we call like a Beatles ideal, which is that the band is about being the band and the music is the band's personality and interests. - Billy Corgan

Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color your not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song Cow." - Billy Corgan

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