Billy Corgan Quotes

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• I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

  Billy Corgan

  Spiritual, Recovery, Journey

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• There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

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  People, Want, Aging

  "Billy Corgan's mission statement for 'Oceania': Do or die". Interview with Greg Kot, articles.chicagotribune.com. June 15, 2012.

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• Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.

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  Great Music, Genre, Conception

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• 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.

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  Idols, Hue, Problem

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• The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading edge of where everything is going, but you can't be too far.

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  Rewards, Artistic, Endeavor

  "A Conversation With Billy Corgan Part II". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.

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  Past, Thinking, Way

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• Been there, done that, seen it, heard it, pissed on it.

  Billy Corgan

  Done, Heard, Been There Done That

  "Smashing Pumpkins: SPIN’s ‘Mellon Collie’ Cover Story, ‘Zero Worship’". Interview with Craig Marks, www.spin.com. October 23, 2015.

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• The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it.

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  Trying, Different, Way

  "Smashing Pumpkins". Book by Jim Stapleton, 1996.

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• Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose

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  Judging, Standards, Loses

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• Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage.

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  Rats, Cages, Rage

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• Beware of those angels with their wings glued on.

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  Angel, Wings

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• I'm an experimental artist in a field that doesn't celebrate experimentation. It celebrates self-destruction, which I guess you could say is a creative endeavor.

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  Artist, Self, Creative

  "A Conversation With Billy Corgan Part II". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?

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  Practice, Perfect, Rhetorical Question

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• For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right.

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  Hair, Voice, Feet

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Real, Light, Roots

  "Billy Corgan launches blog on spirituality" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2009.

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• I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

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  Class, My Family, Middle

  "The Great Pumpkin: Billy Corgan Discusses Tour, New Album, Personal Philosophy". Stereo IQ interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think it was similarly disillusioning when you realize the mainstream just views it as like a curiosity.

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  Thinking, World, Realizing

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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

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  Cat, Thinking, Culture

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• In the music business I am surrounded by people who don't view music as a sacred voice. They view music as something that they can use and exploit, often times lazily. They have no sense of the tradition, they have no sense of honor about those who came before and charted the path.

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  Views, Voice, People

  "A Conversation with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Why is it that all non-conformists look the same?

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  Looks, Non Conformist, Conformist

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• Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

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  Here I Am, Two, Floating

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

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  Guitar, Layers, Kind

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• 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.

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  People, Appreciate, Trying

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• I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps forward and says, "Why are you being calculated?" Calculated seems to assume a sinister intent. My intent is always for artistic effect.

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  Self, Knowing, Done

  "A Conversation With Billy Corgan Part II". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

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  Criticism, Compliment, Form

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