Band Quote by Billy Corgan

I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.

— Billy Corgan

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger…

— Billy Corgan

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

— Yoko Ono

The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.

— John Lennon

You don't accidentally turn into a big band. Not even Nirvana accidentally turned into a big band. They toured - they wanted to become…

— Tobias Forge

We don't have the big-band mentality. We never wanted to become a big band.

— Fab Moretti

Bands really are big for a lot of the same reasons, like in the Seventies and Eighties up into the 2000s where we are.…

— Luke Hemmings

The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.

— Mick Jagger

Even when we were at that point when we had very few fans, we never felt like a small band. We always felt like…

— Zacky Vengeance

For a band to make it to four albums is no small feat in itself.

— Luke Hemmings

When we started playing our music, there weren't really many bigger punk bands. We wrote for ourselves. We weren't expecting to get a record…

— Chad Gilbert

I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.

— Nate Ruess