Author Profile
Billy Corgan
1967 • American • Musician
62
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Showing 62 quotesI mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.— Billy Corgan
My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.— Billy Corgan
When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.— Billy Corgan
A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.— Billy Corgan
Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.— Billy Corgan
People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.— Billy Corgan
I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.— Billy Corgan
You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.— Billy Corgan
The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.— Billy Corgan
In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.— Billy Corgan