We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it. — 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's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media. — 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
I don't think people buy records because of anything that happens on Facebook. They buy records cause they're friends say 'I bought… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
There's a lot of UFO sightings in New Orleans, which isn't really too surprising. There's a lotta crazy people there. The people… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
What has gone on in my childhood, and the personal problems that we've had in the band, have given a lot of… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I really think it's a white, bourgeois idea to pretend that you don't have influences. It seems to be the obsession strictly… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I think it would be very interesting to see that many people would probably be okay with paying more for services and… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
In the music business I am surrounded by people who don't view music as a sacred voice. They view music as something… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I put up with the music business because I understand that I'm in the tradition, I'm in a tradition that's of far… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I just don't want to live in the past. I'm really disappointed by so many people of my generation who - in… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I've thought many times, 'I can't write this,' but on my own little planet I found the courage to write it because… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I know how stupid people can be. I've played in front of 5,000 people that bought a ticket to my concert, and… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Instead of taking the 'I'm cool, I hope you adore me' path (with my music), I chose the path of how to… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hundred to one...Record companies, they don't have… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
There's something going on right now in America, where the American spirit or character is reasserting itself around liberty. I think it's… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity. — 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 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
Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow… — 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
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
I think humankind is going to have to evolve into systems that are more transparent. Then people will be able to make… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates… — 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
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
I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
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 Image
We were in Japan once where they had 30 kinds of green tea. I thought there was one. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“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.” quote by Billy Corgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4fe/billy-corgan-1014_advantage_i-think-it-would-be-very-interesting-to_236529.jpg)
![“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 don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.” quote by Billy Corgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/82d/billy-corgan-1014_certain_being-overly-identified-with-a-certain-p_125827.jpg)
![“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 - how do you create something from nothing? Anyone who's creative understands that that's the magic, that's the alchemy.” quote by Billy Corgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1ab/billy-corgan-1014_alchemy_everybody-can-close-their-eyes-picture-a_86053.jpg)
