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

Billy Corgan Quotes

American - Musician Born: March 17, 1967

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I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city. Billy Corgan

City, You, Property

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

Love, You, Kind

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

Survival, Rock And Roll

Most great records really start with the drums. Billy Corgan

Great, Start, Most

My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll. Billy Corgan

World, Line, Sell

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

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was. Billy Corgan

Conflict, Trying, Point

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

Cool, Trying, Person

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

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

Character, Play, Kind

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

Strength, Calm, Debate

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

Money, Light, Social Media

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

Nature, God, Culture

I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore. Billy Corgan

Thinking, People, Me

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, People, Me

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear. Billy Corgan

Trust, Fear, Push

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

People, Know, Wrestling

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity. Billy Corgan

Character, Mind, People

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

My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships. Billy Corgan

Mother, Company, Present

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

Criticism, Compliments, Form

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me. Billy Corgan

People, Me, Remember

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, You

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

Original, Position, Just

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry. Billy Corgan

Ideas, You, Underestimate

People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing. Billy Corgan

People, Want, Play

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