110+ Billy Corgan Quotes On Politics, God And Joe Rogan

Billy Corgan is an American musician, songwriter, producer and poet best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. He is also the founder and frontman of the alternative rock supergroup Zwan and the lead singer and sole permanent member of the avant-garde band Spirits in the Sky. Corgan is also the founder of the music label Martha's Music and the pro wrestling promotion Resistance Pro Wrestling. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Billy Corgan on life, love, politics.

Top 10 Billy Corgan Quotes

1. I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.
2. I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.
3. Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.
4. I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.'
5. 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.
6. To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.
7. Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.
8. Once a pumpkin, Always a pumpkin.
9. Why is it that all non-conformists look the same?
10. Been there, done that, seen it, heard it, pissed on it.

Billy Corgan Short Quotes

• I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.
• I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.
• I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.
• Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.
• Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.
• Live simply; make compassionate choices when it comes to food.
• Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.
• I don't think I'm before my time, I just don't think I'm in my time.
• The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.
• That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.

Billy Corgan Quotes About Life

I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not by being whatever. Sometimes I act like a jerk, but I think people respect me for being myself. That's the ultimate thing about the Smashing Pumpkins. — 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

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

I use music as some kind of weird salvation to get away from life — Billy Corgan

We don't make music for people to take drugs to, we make music for people to live their life. — Billy Corgan

Life is everything and nothing all at once. — Billy Corgan

Everything about life makes me lonely. — Billy Corgan

Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves. — Billy Corgan

I reached a point in my life where I felt like I was living through some old character. — Billy Corgan

We can look you in the eye and talk to you about life, heart, love rock'n'roll, whatever, but we do not have the moral authority to tell people how to vote or what to do with their bodies. We are just a rock band. — Billy Corgan

Billy Corgan Quotes About Love

The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too. — Billy Corgan

We love cats more than we love women [with Marilyn Manson]. — Billy Corgan

Destruction is a true sign of devotion. As I always tell my girlfriend when she threatens to kill me. 'You should kill me and it would tell me that you love me. — Billy Corgan

Intoxicated With the madness I'm in love with My sadness Bullshit beggars, enchanted kingdom Fashion victims through their charcoaled teeth — Billy Corgan

In my Corgan brain, I've decided it's almost as simple as 'All you need is love.' Almost. — Billy Corgan

Billy Corgan Quotes About God

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

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light. — Billy Corgan

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

As long as you have faith, you're willing to try to take another chance. God wants you to amble toward the right spot on the horizon. The idea is that you're willing to get up and keep moving toward that light. — Billy Corgan

Billy Corgan Quotes About Kind

We had a wonderful time with this kind of grunge awareness, where suddenly rock was cool again. People wanted to head loud guitars. It was a great time, and I'm glad we were there. But the gimmick part has worn off. — Billy Corgan

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version. — Billy Corgan

There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got. — Billy Corgan

I'm by nature kind of a glum person, but I'm not a sad pathetic — Billy Corgan

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. — Billy Corgan

You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun. — Billy Corgan

Billy Corgan Quotes About Wrong

In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else. — Billy Corgan

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

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem. — Billy Corgan

Billy Corgan Quotes About Sort

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

If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family. — Billy Corgan

Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they don't get so they don't think it's funny. — Billy Corgan

Billy Corgan Quotes About Pumpkins

You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way. — Billy Corgan

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage. — Billy Corgan

The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band. — Billy Corgan

Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs. — Billy Corgan

Billy Corgan Quotes About World

This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world. — Billy Corgan

That's the real endeavor: to try to create that direct conduit from the pure consciousness of your creative voice to the person who's a craftsman who can go into the world and consistently deliver new things worth paying attention to. — Billy Corgan

The difficulty, if you're in the world - and this is for anybody - is the eventual disappointment that comes with having to meet other versions of reality. Imposed systems that ask you to compromise or sacrifice things which you consider holy or sacred. — Billy Corgan

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. — Billy Corgan

I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think it was similarly disillusioning when you realize the mainstream just views it as like a curiosity. — Billy Corgan

And the world so hard to understand is the world you can't live without. — Billy Corgan

In 1992, with the weight of a perceived world on our shoulders, we disappeared into a parking garage to write the songs that would change the course of our lives forever. 'Siamese Dream' represents all of our dreams coming true, while the dreams of a happy band fell apart. — Billy Corgan

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

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

My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am. — Billy Corgan

Billy Corgan Famous Quotes And Sayings

Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color your not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song 'Cow.' — Billy Corgan

There's nothing more satisfying than going to a market and meeting the person who picked the strawberries, or it's their farm that the strawberries came from, and giving them a fair value in exchange for what they're giving you. — Billy Corgan

I'm a Pisces, and Pisces have this weird inability to be completely spontaneous. We're too conscious of our actions. I've always been way too sensible for my own good. — Billy Corgan

Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand. — Billy Corgan

I usually wake up far after breakfast. That's as much as you're going to find out about my dietary requirements other than marijuana and vodka. — Billy Corgan

The reason I don't play any of the old songs is because I really honor my old band, and I think that those songs are best served within the context of that band. — Billy Corgan

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

I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity. — Billy Corgan

There's been someone up here screaming 'Landslide' for the whole show... Normally we don't play 'Landslide,' but on occasion we've been known to play it... So since this person's been screaming it all show long... That just about kills the chances of me playing it tonight, or ever again. — Billy Corgan

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating. — Billy Corgan

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28. — Billy Corgan

Everybody can close their eyes, picture a dream house or a perfect place [where] they'd like to have a picnic. But actually creating it - how do you create something from nothing? Anyone who's creative understands that that's the magic, that's the alchemy. — Billy Corgan

The weird nihilism that permeates Mellon Collie is extremely relevant to what's going on right now. So many kids are intelligent and articulate, but they don't know what to do with themselves. — Billy Corgan

As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field. — Billy Corgan

I don't know if God would agree with me, but believing in God is kind of unimportant when compared to believing in yourself. Because if you go with the idea that God gave you a mind and an ability to judge things, then he would want you to believe in yourself and not worry about believing in him. By believing in yourself you will come to the conclusion that will point to something. — Billy Corgan

If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do. — Billy Corgan

That's the great thing about rock n' roll: the myth is ultimately more important than the reality. And that's what you learn - you just learn to go with the mythology. — Billy Corgan

I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps forward and says, "Why are you being calculated?" Calculated seems to assume a sinister intent. My intent is always for artistic effect. — Billy Corgan

I put up with the music business because I understand that I'm in the tradition, I'm in a tradition that's of far greater importance than the business I seem to be in. Everywhere I go in the world, people ask me about the business that I seem to be in, but I'm not really in that business. — Billy Corgan

Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose — Billy Corgan

Today is the greatest Day I've ever known Can't live for tomorrow, Tomorrow's much too long. — Billy Corgan

I don't like that the government is going to manipulate the information to try to convince me that what I'm eating is not what I'm really eating. If people choose to eat cardboard because it's ten cents cheaper, then let them. That's at the root of freedom. But in the reverse, I'd like to know if what I'm eating or consuming or buying is somehow hurting or exploiting someone in another part of the planet. — Billy Corgan

What bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period of time - music had a cultural significance on different levels, whether it was folk music, it was the news of the village, or it had to do with the rites of passage. — Billy Corgan

I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine. — Billy Corgan

I want to be able to look back and think that as long as I was going this, I did the best that I could. — Billy Corgan

I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms. — Billy Corgan

I know how stupid people can be. I've played in front of 5,000 people that bought a ticket to my concert, and some guy who's bought a ticket decides he's going to throw a bottle at my head. That's a simple act of stupidity. That's not even defiance. — Billy Corgan

I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much wiped out. — Billy Corgan

The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets. — Billy Corgan

My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children. — Billy Corgan

We're the worst band in America... That makes us the best. — Billy Corgan

I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over. — Billy Corgan

Music is supposed to be interwoven into the fabric of society; it is not supposed to be a plaything that is there to serve the population's titillation of the moment. — Billy Corgan

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. — Billy Corgan

I met Scott Stapp when the band was first coming up, great guy. I haven't seen him for years, but a great guy. — Billy Corgan

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people. — Billy Corgan

There's a lot of UFO sightings in New Orleans, which isn't really too surprising. There's a lotta crazy people there. The people there lack the intelligence to know what they are seeing, so that's why the UFO's go there. — Billy Corgan

Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time. — Billy Corgan

I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens. — Billy Corgan

At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting. — Billy Corgan

The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading edge of where everything is going, but you can't be too far. — Billy Corgan

Billy [Corgan] and I used to spend quite a lot of time together in Los Angeles, when I first moved there. — Billy Corgan

We weren't like mates who decided to form a band. The other three met me because they were interested in being in the band that I was starting. — Billy Corgan

It makes me crazy to think that somebody might attack my city or any other city. — Billy Corgan

It seems to me that references to bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin meant more to me a year ago and all those old things are totally losing importance. — Billy Corgan

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. — Billy Corgan

I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck. — Billy Corgan

For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right. — Billy Corgan

Fur is a contentious issue. Meat is a contentious issue. GMOs are a contentious issue. I think this whole thing going on about whether or not products should be labeled if they have GMOs in them - I, as a consumer, would like to know if I'm eating GMO food. If I choose to buy it then it's my choice. — Billy Corgan

Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing. And [the public] actually puts all their energy into reasserting or re-establishing what the artist has long ago left behind. Because that's what they want. The source of creativity, the gift that's been given, be damned. — Billy Corgan

The Killer in me is the Killer in you. — Billy Corgan

I think it would be very interesting to see that many people would probably be okay with paying more for services and goods that they felt were more holistically [generated]. Which means the death of the old system which rewarded people for taking advantage of one another. — Billy Corgan

It's wonderful to read interviews by old blues guys - they talk about all their influences, they talk about who taught them how to play, and who they saw, and how they were determined to play that way. — Billy Corgan

We are the most beloved and hated band in the world. — Billy Corgan

I'm an experimental artist in a field that doesn't celebrate experimentation. It celebrates self-destruction, which I guess you could say is a creative endeavor. — Billy Corgan

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

Shave your head, wear a 'ZERO' shirt. Take away your identity. What do you have? You still have yourself. — Billy Corgan

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. — Billy Corgan

People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it. — Billy Corgan

When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before. — Billy Corgan

I was playing heavy metal when I was 18. I had to evolve out of that into an alternative consciousness about what it meant to change the way I played guitar, and the kind of songs, and the subject matter, and singing about child abuse, and all this stuff. I had to come from somewhere, and I had to take chances to do that. — Billy Corgan

I feel completely free to do whatever I want and how I want to do it. I feel unburdened by my past. — Billy Corgan

People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we're the same way. — Billy Corgan

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that. — Billy Corgan

Life Lessons by Billy Corgan

1. Life is full of ups and downs, and it's important to stay resilient and keep pushing forward no matter what. Billy Corgan has experienced many successes and failures throughout his career, but he has never given up on his dreams.
2. It's important to take risks and be creative in order to stand out and make a lasting impact. Billy Corgan has consistently pushed the boundaries of music and has created a unique and iconic sound that has made him a household name.
3. It's important to stay true to yourself and not be swayed by what others think. Billy Corgan has always stayed true to his own vision, even when it has been met with criticism and resistance.