Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.
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Billy Corgan
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About Billy Corgan
William Patrick Corgan Jr. is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and professional wrestling promoter. He is best known as the co-founder, lead guitarist, primary songwriter, singer, and only constant member of alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. Corgan is credited with helping popularize the alternative rock genre. Considered as one of the finest and most underrated rock guitarists of the 1990s, Rolling Stone called him and his Smashing Pumpkins bandmates "ruthless virtuosos". He…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Billy CorganI do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.
Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.
There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.
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.
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.
Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.
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We've turned into a whining society.
You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.
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 s…
Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.
I like my home and I like the nature.
Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.
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.
To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.
The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.
Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never r…
I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.
People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.
Music is your guide.
To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.
You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.
When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.