50 Quotes By Billy Corgan


I like my home and I like the nature.
Billy Corgan on home

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.
Billy Corgan on hope

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.
Billy Corgan on movingon

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
Billy Corgan on music

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.
Billy Corgan on music

When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.
Billy Corgan on music

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.
Billy Corgan on music

To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.
Billy Corgan on music

Music is your guide.
Billy Corgan on music

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 on music

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
Billy Corgan on music

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 on music

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 on music

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 on music

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 on music

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.
Billy Corgan on nature

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.
Billy Corgan on nature

I like my home and I like the nature.
Billy Corgan on nature

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 on peace

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.
Billy Corgan on relationship