Quote

People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we're the same way.

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
People
Called
Happy
Made
Gloomy
Something
Cure
Way
Cures
Always
Gave
Think
Comfort
Thinking
Listening

More quotes by Billy Corgan

Image
There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.
Billy Corgan
Image
I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.
Billy Corgan
Image
That's the real endeavor: to try to create that direct conduit from the pure consciousness of your creative voice to the person who's a craftsman who can go into the world and consistently deliver new things worth paying attention to.
Billy Corgan
Image
I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.
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
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 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.
Billy Corgan
Image
I didn't find Jesus. He's been there the whole time.
Billy Corgan
Image
If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.
Billy Corgan
Image
I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.
Billy Corgan
Image
Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.
Billy Corgan
Image
Live simply make compassionate choices when it comes to food.
Billy Corgan
Image
I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.
Billy Corgan
Image
I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.
Billy Corgan
Image
If the next record is no better than Gish, then we've failed.
Billy Corgan
Image
Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a God or Gods should pose no threat to you.
Billy Corgan
Image
I'm from a lower middle class background all my family were immigrants.
Billy Corgan
Image
I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.
Billy Corgan
Image
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.
Billy Corgan
Image
I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.
Billy Corgan