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Billy Corgan Inspirational Quotes (163)

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I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.
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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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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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Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a God or Gods should pose no threat to you.
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You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.
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These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.
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I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.
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People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
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Destruction is a true sign of devotion. As I always tell my girlfriend when she threatens to kill me. 'You should kill me and it would tell me that you love me.
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A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
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There's nothing more satisfying than going to a market and meeting the person who picked the strawberries, or it's their farm that the strawberries came from, and giving them a fair value in exchange for what they're giving you.
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If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and your psyche that are really uncomfortable to face: your own ambition, your own greed, your own avarice, your own jealousies, and anything that would get in the way of the purity of your own artistic voice.
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I usually wake up far after breakfast. That's as much as you're going to find out about my dietary requirements other than marijuana and vodka.
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I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.
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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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I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.
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I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens.
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I rummage around in artistic things from the past. If you don't understand the context, they wouldn't make any sense. I rummage around in conceptual ideas of the future, but if you don't know the source of the thinking, [it] wouldn't make any sense.
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I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.
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Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.
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The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
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If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.
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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.
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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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