Billy Corgan Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color your not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song 'Cow.'

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Writing, Light

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine.

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Hard Times, Men

• The Killer in me is the Killer in you.

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Philosophy, Killers

  Song: Disarm

• The title of a song is like the wrapping on a present.

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Titles, Wrapping

• In 1992, with the weight of a perceived world on our shoulders, we disappeared into a parking garage to write the songs that would change the course of our lives forever. 'Siamese Dream' represents all of our dreams coming true, while the dreams of a happy band fell apart.

  Billy Corgan

  Dream, Song, Writing

  "Smashing Pumpkins going deluxe on ‘Gish’ and ‘Siamese Dream’ reissues". uproxx.com. October 18, 2011.

• In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Made, Instance

• I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Thinking, People

• It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Simple, Play

  "Billy Corgan says Veronicas' Jessica and Lisa Origliasso could go solo". PerthNow Interview, www.perthnow.com.au. September 15, 2010.

• The reason I don't play any of the old songs is because I really honor my old band, and I think that those songs are best served within the context of that band.

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Thinking, Play

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

• People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Play, People

• I was playing heavy metal when I was 18. I had to evolve out of that into an alternative consciousness about what it meant to change the way I played guitar, and the kind of songs, and the subject matter, and singing about child abuse, and all this stuff. I had to come from somewhere, and I had to take chances to do that.

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Children, Guitar

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

• You give me a @#$%& kazoo and I'll write you a good song.

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Writing, Giving

• Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Band, Pumpkin

• I want to make great songs.

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Want

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