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That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.
— Billy Corgan
I reached a point in my life where I felt like I was living through some old character.
— Billy Corgan
I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.
— Billy Corgan
A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.
— Billy Corgan
Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.
— Billy Corgan
There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.
— Billy Corgan
At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.
— Billy Corgan
Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.
— Billy Corgan
Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.
— Billy Corgan
Beware of those angels with their wings glued on.
— 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
If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.
— Billy Corgan
I met Scott Stapp when the band was first coming up, great guy. I haven't seen him for years, but a great guy.
— Billy Corgan
Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.
— Billy Corgan
If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do.
— Billy Corgan
In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.
— Billy Corgan
You're in a band 24 hours a day.
— Billy Corgan
Today is the greatest
Day I've ever known
Can't live for tomorrow,
Tomorrow's much too long ... — Billy Corgan
Day I've ever known
Can't live for tomorrow,
Tomorrow's much too long ... — Billy Corgan
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 it. We need to restrain ourselves.
— Billy Corgan
Hey, Christian rock, if you want to be good, stop copying U2. U2 already did it. You know what I mean? There's a lot of U2-esque Christian rock.
— Billy Corgan
To me, it's the folly of man to make God human.
— Billy Corgan
The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.
— Billy Corgan
It just doesn't work without the others.
— Billy Corgan
It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.
— 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
You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.
— Billy Corgan
These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.
— Billy Corgan
Personally, I think Jesus would like better bands.
— Billy Corgan
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage.
— Billy Corgan
People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
— Billy Corgan
There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.
— Billy Corgan
What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.
— Billy Corgan
I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.
— Billy Corgan
My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.
— Billy Corgan
I don't want to be 25 again.
— Billy Corgan
We're the worst band in America ... That makes us the best.
— Billy Corgan
If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
— Billy Corgan
My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.
— Billy Corgan
I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.
— Billy Corgan
The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.
— Billy Corgan
I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.
— Billy Corgan
Being in a rock band is just an excuse not to get a job
— Billy Corgan
I want people to see me happy.
— Billy Corgan
I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.
— Billy Corgan
Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.
— Billy Corgan
Well, we have brought certain things upon ourselves. I've certainly brought things upon us with my mouth.
— Billy Corgan
Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.
— Billy Corgan
I want to be able to look back and think that as long as I was going this, I did the best that I could.
— Billy Corgan
The title of a song is like the wrapping on a present.
— Billy Corgan
The Killer in me is the Killer in you.
— Billy Corgan
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.
— Billy Corgan
I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.
— Billy Corgan
I hate how in magazine pictures, they always stick me somewhere in the back. It means they don't think I'm the cute one.
— Billy Corgan
I tend to be reactionary.
— Billy Corgan
Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.
— Billy Corgan
Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.
— Billy Corgan
My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.
— Billy Corgan
I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.
— Billy Corgan
People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why
there was just a presence between the four people or something. — Billy Corgan
there was just a presence between the four people or something. — Billy Corgan
You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.
— Billy Corgan
I'm a bit weird.
— Billy Corgan
I don't want to be a dead hero.
— Billy Corgan
I like my home and I like the nature.
— Billy Corgan
Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.
— Billy Corgan
A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
— Billy Corgan
I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine.
— 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've always believed that we could reach past genre
we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms. — Billy Corgan
we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms. — Billy Corgan
Music is your guide.
— Billy Corgan
We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.
— Billy Corgan