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
People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular. Billy Corgan
I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity. Billy Corgan
Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight. Billy Corgan
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. Billy Corgan
To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now. Billy Corgan
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language. Conrad Hall
It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today. Layne Staley
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind. Robert Fulghum
If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way. Katy Perry
Oh, I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write. Katy Perry
Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. Billie Joe Armstrong
I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy. Fred Durst
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. Camille Paglia
The only love affair I have ever had was with music. Maurice Ravel