Quotes by

Billy Corgan

One thing Ive learned to appreciate as Ive gotten a little older is direct forms of communication. – Billy Corgan

Im sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car. – Billy Corgan

Im not interested in pop art. – Billy Corgan

Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness. – Billy Corgan

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did. – Billy Corgan

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature. – Billy Corgan

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. – Billy Corgan

When you actually like each other, it translates to the music. – Billy Corgan

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience. – Billy Corgan

Music is your guide. – Billy Corgan

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love. – Billy Corgan

I like my home and I like the nature. – Billy Corgan

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear. – Billy Corgan

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death. – Billy Corgan

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity. – Billy Corgan

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that. – Billy Corgan

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking. – Billy Corgan

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business. – Billy Corgan

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business. – Billy Corgan

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight. – Billy Corgan