Quotes by Billy Corgan

Billy Corgan

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What’s funny is, I’ve died so many times.

Artist

Died

Willing

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it’s ever been.

Band

Rocks

World

About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I’d ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it’s so beautiful.

Albums

Beautiful

Dream

Actually, I was having dinner with Michael [Stipe, of R.E.M.] when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we’d ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, ‘Welcome to the deep waters, kid.’ I’ll never forget that.

Albums

Deep Water

Kids

All humans are part male and part female. The other side must be explored to gain complete understanding ofourselves and the world we live in. Forme, the idea of having a feminine perspective is a willingness to be vulnerable.

Ideas

Perspective

Understanding

All I can go on is my own value system.

Goes On

My Own

Value Systems

Around the mid-’90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing.

Guy

Hair Metal

Tattoo

As a healthy person, my breakfasts are very bland and boring. Think kind of a white pasty gruel. Or there can be an occasional banana over the top.

Healthy

Thinking

White

As far as a theoretical point of view for my generation, I’m probably the most successful theoretician. I mean, double albums and concepts and dresses and major disasters and wonderful successes and yet you don’t see the critical review of my work. Why? Because it’s all focused on the persona. Billy Corgan. But I get to sort of jump in and be Billy Corgan. But then I get to sort of jump back out and be like, sensitive man in the corner.

Mean

Men

Successful

Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don’t want you to grow up, they don’t want you to change, they don’t want you to evolve.

Growing Up

People

Want

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Accepted

Addiction

Adults

Albums

Always Fighting

Ambition

America

Angel

Answers

Arms

Art

Artist

Artistic

Ashamed

Attacking

Attention

Attitude

Band

Basketball

Beautiful

Belief

Believe

Beloved

Bigs

Bites

Black

Brain

Business

Cages

Care

Certain

Championship

Chance

Character

Children

Chips

Choices

Christian

Cities

Class

Coats

College

Compassionate

Complaining

Compliment

Conception

Conflict

Conventional

Country

Creating

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Quotes by Billy Corgan

Billy Corgan

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What’s funny is, I’ve died so many times.

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it’s ever been.

About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I’d ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it’s so beautiful.

Actually, I was having dinner with Michael [Stipe, of R.E.M.] when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we’d ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, ‘Welcome to the deep waters, kid.’ I’ll never forget that.

All humans are part male and part female. The other side must be explored to gain complete understanding ofourselves and the world we live in. Forme, the idea of having a feminine perspective is a willingness to be vulnerable.

All I can go on is my own value system.

Around the mid-’90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing.

As a healthy person, my breakfasts are very bland and boring. Think kind of a white pasty gruel. Or there can be an occasional banana over the top.

Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don’t want you to grow up, they don’t want you to change, they don’t want you to evolve.

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