Quotes by Billy Corgan

About Billy Corgan:

William Patrick "Billy" Corgan Jr. is an American musician, songwriter, producer, TV writer, and poet, best known as the lead singer, guitarist, and sole permanent member of The Smashing Pumpkins. Formed by Corgan and guitarist James Iha in Chicago, Illinois, in 1987, the band quickly gained steam with the addition of bassist D'arcy Wretzky and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin. The band's direction has largely been driven by Corgan through his confessional lyrics, grandiose production values, and virtuosic musical interplay. Three years after their first studio album release, Gish, the Smashing Pumpkins had transformed themselves into a major label success. Strong album sales and large-scale tours propelled the band's increasing fame in the 1990s until their break-up in 2000. Corgan started a new band called Zwan, and after their quick demise, he released a solo album (TheFutureEmbrace) and a collection of poetry (Blinking with Fists) before setting his sights on reforming Smashing Pumpkins.
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I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.

Billy Corgan

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

Billy Corgan

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.

Billy Corgan

I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.

Billy Corgan

I 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

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

Billy Corgan

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

Billy Corgan

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

Billy Corgan

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

I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory.

Billy Corgan

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.

Billy Corgan

I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't c...

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

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

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

Billy Corgan

I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

Billy Corgan

I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.

Billy Corgan

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

I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.

Billy Corgan

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.

Billy Corgan

I don't want to be 25 again.

Billy Corgan

Author Bio

  • NameBilly Corgan
  • DescriptionAmerican musician, songwriter, producer, and author
  • BornMarch 17, 1967
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionGuitarist; Singer; Singer-songwriter; Poet; Songwriter