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Billy Corgan Inspirational Quotes (163)

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I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.
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The difficulty, if you're in the world - and this is for anybody - is the eventual disappointment that comes with having to meet other versions of reality. Imposed systems that ask you to compromise or sacrifice things which you consider holy or sacred.
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If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.
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You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our own demise.
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My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.
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It's about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to put all my anger in those words, even though I'm just as much to blame for the break-up. 'Soma' is based on the idea that a love relationship is almost the same as opium: it slowly puts you to sleep, it soothes you, and gives you the illusion of sureness and security. Very deceivable.
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We love cats more than we love women [with Marilyn Manson].
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I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.
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My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.
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Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose
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We are the most beloved and hated band in the world.
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For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.
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I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory.
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Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.
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The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.
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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.
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I'm passionate about creating new systems that are more holistic to humankind. What do I mean by that? I mean, create new systems of business so that people with ethics both exploit their goods and their gifts while not exploiting the earth, exploiting one another.
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Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.
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The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.
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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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My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.
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The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.
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It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound. And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking.
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The weird nihilism that permeates Mellon Collie is extremely relevant to what's going on right now. So many kids are intelligent and articulate, but they don't know what to do with themselves.
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