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

Billy Corgan Quotes

American - Musician Born: March 17, 1967

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

Strength, Thought, Calm

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

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

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, Hope, Light

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

Cool, Trying, Person

My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses. Billy Corgan

Life, Good, Easy

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

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

Character, Mind, People

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, Present, Company

Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left. Billy Corgan

American, Wrestling, Last

I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music. Billy Corgan

Music, God, Rock And Roll

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

Love, You, Emotion

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

Most great records really start with the drums. Billy Corgan

Great, Start, Records

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

Music, Me, Weird

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

Fear, Trust, Push

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

Nature, Culture, God

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

Relationship, God, Spiritual

I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps. Billy Corgan

Character, Weird, You

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

Nature, Home, Like

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years? Billy Corgan

Love, Great, Rock And Roll

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

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

You, Celebrity, Kind

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, Money, Social Media

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, Championship, Sell

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