Billy Corgan Quotes

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• There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.
• As long as you have faith, you're willing to try to take another chance. God wants you to amble toward the right spot on the…
• The Killer in me is the Killer in you.
• A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.
• Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose
• To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence
• Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.
• If the next record is no better than Gish, then we've failed.
• About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated…
• The weird nihilism that permeates Mellon Collie is extremely relevant to what's going on right now. So many kids are intelligent and articulate, but they…
• 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 any money so…
• I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much wiped out.
• People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and…
• The music is all we care about -- so if that's bad, then we're bad.
• Every year that goes by, I lose that much more motivation to play rock.
• Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want…
• 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 cake and eat…
• Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.
• When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.
• I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.

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