Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it. Billy Corgan More Quotes by Billy Corgan More Quotes From 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 light christian thinking I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants. Billy Corgan my-family middle class 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 realizing world thinking Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs. Billy Corgan pumpkin band song We were just a little immature in the past. I think we actually wanted to create difficult situations for ourselves just to be able to use that emotion for stimulation. Billy Corgan difficult-situations past thinking You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our own demise. Billy Corgan rocks eye long It's what the mainstream does - they absorb things and they blunt the power of it. And so the next generation and the next generation has to become more shocking and more provocative in order to get any rise out of anybody. Billy Corgan generations doe order I reached a point in my life where I felt like I was living through some old character. Billy Corgan felt character 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 tonight play long I've thought many times, 'I can't write this,' but on my own little planet I found the courage to write it because it was true. I put aside fear of Father being angry with me. It's hard though; the world pales in comparison with the stature of a parent. In some small-consolation way, my parents feel I'm helping people by giving them something to identify with. They feel proud in a sort of reverse way. My mom's proud of the fact that lots of kids look up to me. Billy Corgan mom writing father 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 fabric population moments 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 band simple want 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 pumpkin band bigs 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 rocks stars thinking When alternative music - which is supposed to be the standard-bearer of where white rock is headed - becomes either too cute or too manufactured, that's just really not good. Billy Corgan rocks white cute In my Corgan brain, I've decided it's almost as simple as 'All you need is love.' Almost. Billy Corgan simple brain needs If I had spent fourteen months in a small room with Jesus, I'd want to fist fight with him. Billy Corgan small-rooms fighting jesus 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 starting band three 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 rocks eye heart Life is everything and nothing all at once. Billy Corgan life-is
