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
Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years? — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
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 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
That's the great thing about rock n' roll: the myth is ultimately more important than the reality. And that's what you learn… — 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
A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your… — 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
The mythology in rock n' roll is that I'm a bit of a loose cannon. Yet I've produced more music than anybody… — 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
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
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
Every year that goes by, I lose that much more motivation to play rock. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
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
We had a wonderful time with this kind of grunge awareness, where suddenly rock was cool again. People wanted to head loud… — 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
I'm like the Fugitive, running from the one-armed indie-rock community! — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
When alternative music - which is supposed to be the standard-bearer of where white rock is headed - becomes either too cute… — 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
