Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So,… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
We don't make music for people to take drugs to, we make music for people to live their life. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
It seems to me that references to bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin meant more to me a year ago and… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
The reason I don't play any of the old songs is because I really honor my old band, and I think that… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Music is supposed to be interwoven into the fabric of society; it is not supposed to be a plaything that is there… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
We can look you in the eye and talk to you about life, heart, love rock'n'roll, whatever, but we do not have… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality,… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
We were in Japan once where they had 30 kinds of green tea. I thought there was one. — Billy Corgan Copy Share
All humans are part male and part female. The other side must be explored to gain complete understanding ofourselves and the world we live… — Billy Corgan Copy Share
“I used to be a little boy So old in my shoes And what i choose is my choice What's a boy supposed to… — Billy Corgan Copy Share
In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity. — Billy Corgan Copy Share
Everybody can close their eyes, picture a dream house or a perfect place [where] they'd like to have a picnic. But actually creating it… — Billy Corgan Copy Share
In the music business I am surrounded by people who don't view music as a sacred voice. They view music as something that they… — Billy Corgan Copy Share
That was a terrible Super Bowl, I have to say. I mean you got the big Peyton Manning walk off into the sunset win,… — Billy Corgan Copy Share
We can look you in the eye and talk to you about life, heart, love rock'n'roll, whatever, but we do not have the moral… — Billy Corgan Copy Share
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… — Billy Corgan Copy Share
Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they… — Billy Corgan Copy Share
