Billy Corgan quotes - page 6

Billy Corgan is an American musician, songwriter, and the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. His distinctive voice and innovative songwriting have greatly influenced the sound of 1990s alternative rock. He continues to create music and perform both with his band and as a solo artist. Here are 157 of his quotes:

I've seen foreigners really shift on their view of America, and that's hard for me to take.

Billy Corgan

I'm not interested in pop art.

Billy Corgan

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

Billy Corgan

It just doesn't work without the others.

Billy Corgan

There's a lot of days where you feel forgotten.

Billy Corgan

People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.

Billy Corgan

Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.

Billy Corgan

Soon you won't even have the choice to live or die as you wish!

Billy Corgan

I mean, I'm certainly not a 'teaophyte,' or whatever the word would be.

Billy Corgan

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

Billy Corgan

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

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

Billy Corgan

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

Billy Corgan

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

Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.

Billy Corgan

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

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

The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.

Billy Corgan

Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.

Billy Corgan

I realize I'm a mirror.

Billy Corgan

I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.

Billy Corgan

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

Billy Corgan