QUOTES by Billy Corgan
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We were in Japan once where they had 30 kinds of green tea. I thought there was one.
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I've never had coffee. I've always hated the smell. It was always tea. I was a pretty typical kid, though. I grew up drinking Lipton. I didn't know there was other tea to drink.
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It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.
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You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hundred to one...Record companies, they don't have any money, so they see social media as the free marketing... So... 'Billy, light yourself on fire and stand upside down, and that'll market the record.'
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I just don't want to live in the past. I'm really disappointed by so many people of my generation who - in order to promote their new work, they have to constantly lean on their past. I don't want to be that type of artist... I see a lot of people out here doing really marginal music.
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Hey, Christian rock, if you want to be good, stop copying U2. U2 already did it. You know what I mean? There's a lot of U2-esque Christian rock.
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The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.
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I think I'm an artistic radical, and I think I'll be recognized as one. I'm a really good musician and a songwriter, but I think my real legacy will be as a radical.
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Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.
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I have a saying, which is, 'Crazy is good for business.' I think rock and roll really is about being a bit crazy.
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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.
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I don't think people buy records because of anything that happens on Facebook. They buy records cause they're friends say 'I bought this record and I love it.'
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Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.
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If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.
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In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.
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When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.
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More than any audience in the world, Americans will cross their arms, stare at you and say, 'OK, whaddya got?' - no matter how many times you've proven it to them.
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Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threat to you.
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Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.
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Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
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I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.
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There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.
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I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.
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To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.
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A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
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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.
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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.
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Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.
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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.
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Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.
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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.
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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 really been the big centerpiece of the fight.
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I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.
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In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
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