Billy Corgan Quotes

American - Musician Born: March 17, 1967

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

Nature, Journey, Moving On, Spiritual

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

Love, Good, Light, Hope, Tree, Roots

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection. Billy Corgan

Criticism, Compliments, Projection, Some

Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about. Billy Corgan

Injuries, Nothing, Ashamed, About

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you. Billy Corgan

Love, You, Kind, House, Emotion, No Love

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear. Billy Corgan

Fear, Me, Wrong, Resistance, Something

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

Attitude, Music, Responsibility, Fight

I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass. Billy Corgan

Think, Moral, Kind, Lost, Country, Now

Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness. Billy Corgan

Strength, Drive, Calm, Thought, Debate

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around. Billy Corgan

Personality, Me, People, Think, Way, Out

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You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hundred to one...Record companies, they don't have any money, so they see social media as the free marketing... So... 'Billy, light yourself on fire and stand upside down, and that'll market the record.' Billy Corgan

Light, Social Media, Money, Yourself

I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore. Billy Corgan

Character, Play, Kind, Cartoon, Anymore

I have a saying, which is, 'Crazy is good for business.' I think rock and roll really is about being a bit crazy. Billy Corgan

Good, Business, Crazy, Saying, Think

All I can go on is my own value system. Billy Corgan

Value, I Can, My Own, Go, Own, System

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking. Billy Corgan

Cool, Trying, Person, Who, Rocking

Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position. Billy Corgan

Position, Original, Return, Planets

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car. Billy Corgan

Sports, Car, Red, Single, Like, Guy

I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place. Billy Corgan

Focus, Think, Trying, Kind, Place, Long

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

Nature, God, Culture, Cats, Think, Talk

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock. Billy Corgan

Funny, Heart, Me, People, Understand

Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll. Billy Corgan

People, Survival, Rock And Roll, Rock

Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus. Billy Corgan

People, Know, Circus, Wrestling, Most

James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub. Billy Corgan

Best, World, Saying, Situation, You, Bad

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time. Billy Corgan

Time, Responsibility, Long, Long Time

It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media. Billy Corgan

Social Media, People, Media, Important

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again. Billy Corgan

Life, Death, American, You, Story, Know

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