Quote

I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.

Billy Corgan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
Guitarist
Musician
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Billy Burke
Corgan
Johnny Goat
William Patrick Corgan
Going
Think
Thinking
World
Wrestling
Save

More quotes by Billy Corgan

Image
People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
Billy Corgan
Image
And the world so hard to understand is the world you can't live without.
Billy Corgan
Image
Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.
Billy Corgan
Image
When you present people with things from the heart and from the soul, they make better choices: They make better choices about their bodies, they make better choices about their partners, they make better choices about the environment.
Billy Corgan
Image
A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
Billy Corgan
Image
I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.
Billy Corgan
Image
My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.
Billy Corgan
Image
Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing.
Billy Corgan
Image
Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.
Billy Corgan
Image
I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.
Billy Corgan
Image
I use music as some kind of weird salvation to get away from life
Billy Corgan
Image
Beware of those angels with their wings glued on.
Billy Corgan
Image
I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.
Billy Corgan
Image
All I can go on is my own value system.
Billy Corgan
Image
Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.
Billy Corgan
Image
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.
Billy Corgan
Image
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.
Billy Corgan
Image
I'm a Pisces, and Pisces have this weird inability to be completely spontaneous. We're too conscious of our actions. I've always been way too sensible for my own good.
Billy Corgan
Image
If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?
Billy Corgan
Image
Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.
Billy Corgan