The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. Thats what critics cant put their finger on. – Billy Corgan
Were real people and were a band thats been playing on the scene for a long time. Weve made a lot of friends, and one enemy weve always had was the NME. Theyve always basically slated us and theyve basically never ever written about the music. – Dan Hawkins
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
