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Billy Corgan Inspirational Quotes (163)

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If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?
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Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage.
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To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.
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Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.
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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.
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To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.
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Everybody I'm working with now is a friend. And I would be very, very remiss to work with anybody in the future who has not shown me who they really are.
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We had a wonderful time with this kind of grunge awareness, where suddenly rock was cool again. People wanted to head loud guitars. It was a great time, and I'm glad we were there. But the gimmick part has worn off.
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There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.
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I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.
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I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.
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We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.
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I know how stupid people can be. I've played in front of 5,000 people that bought a ticket to my concert, and some guy who's bought a ticket decides he's going to throw a bottle at my head. That's a simple act of stupidity. That's not even defiance.
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When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.
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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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I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.
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Every year that goes by, I lose that much more motivation to play rock.
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Well, we have brought certain things upon ourselves. I've certainly brought things upon us with my mouth.
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To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.
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I think humankind is going to have to evolve into systems that are more transparent. Then people will be able to make more integral choices about the food they eat.
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I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.
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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.
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I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.
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James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.
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