Smashing Pumpkins Quotes
- The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band. — Billy Corgan
- Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs. — Billy Corgan
- I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not by being whatever.… — Billy Corgan
- I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could. — Nate Ruess
- My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general… — Jack Antonoff
- I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even know what it… — Mayer Hawthorne
- 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 on. — Billy Corgan
- When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a… — Amy Poehler
- The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen.… — Amy Lee
- I was never able to get through Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I've never been able to make it through. And I love the… — John Wozniak
- I think mainstream music got its worst around 1998 when bands like Smashing Pumpkins with Adore, Marilyn Manson with Mechanical Animals and even PJ Harvey… — Marc Broude