Quotes
"I'm not in the Smashing Pumpkins anymore, I'm just
Billy"
- Billy Corgan to fan
after Metro Show -
"With Machina, we have come to take our crown back one
more time and piss on it"
-
Billy Corgan from a Launch.com interview about MACHINA -
"Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in
school"
- Billy Corgan
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"Are you ready to rock?..crowd cheers..Well you are in the wrong place"
- Billy Corgan -
"Bless us all for what we think and feel is all we
really have"
- Billy Corgan
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"We come, we saw, we kicked fucking ass - thats the
way I want us to be remembered"
- Billy Corgan -
"I'm glad that people are trying to get our music
early off of the internet. I'd be kind of scared if they didn't "
- Billy Corgan -
"I think Bugg understands this, for he is a very
perceptive dog."
- James Iha
-
"You got Courtney Love to cook for you! Your pimp
hand must be very strong."
-
Howard Stern addressing Billy -
Jebediah (supporting band for SP at
melbourne 1998) (after realising that their guitars were really out of tune)
:
"eh at least the pumpkins won't do
that to you"
Billy
(later when the pumpkins were on stage): "Geez Jebediah were fucking
shit"
- Jebediah / Billy
Corgan -
"I do fuck, but I don't say fuck"
- Melissa Auf Der Maur -
James:
"Surgeon
General says crowd surfing is bad for your back."
Billy:
"You know something
is off when there's crowd surfing during '1979'"
- James Iha and Billy Corgan during the Seattle, WA
show on the Sacred + Profane Tour. Sspoken after a vote was taken in which crowd
surfing was officially band for the remainder of the concert-
"We just flew in from chicago. Boy are our arms
tired!"
- James Iha
-
"I have concerts in my house all the time. I sit with
my guitar on the porch and wave to the kids: 'Come on, you know this song.' I
can't stop rocking. If the band's not there, Iha will be rocking."
- James Iha -
"If practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, then
why practice?"
- Billy Corgan
-
"Contrary to what you've heard, contrary to what
you've read, the revolution is not over. It has just begun."
- Billy Corgan -
"For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice,
I´ve done all right"
- Billy
Corgan -
"...and a fuck you to all those who will never
understand"
- Billy Corgan
-
"Everyone knows she's an idiot..."
- In a James Van Ostel Interview Billy
said this about Mrs. Osbourne -
"'Disarm' is about my childhood and how I turned into
an asshole."
- Billy Corgan
-
"You know where I got the title for "Mayonaise"? I
looked in my refrigerator."
-
Billy Corgan -
"I'm glad that I'm such a good rhymer,
Better than being a social climber,
Just because I'm a bit brighter,
Than some fucking writer."
-Fax Billy Corgan sent to a reporter who said SP
sucked.
"I'll die someday, and it won't be mythical or
magical, I'll just bite into a Twinkie and fall over!"
- Billy Corgan -
"In 1991, we were competing with the real deal. Now
we're competing with Nirvana mimics."
- Billy Corgan -
"Ten fucking years I've known this guy (James), and I
just want to drop kick his head."
- Billy Corgan -
"Look, I'm saying what I want to say, and if you don't
fucking like it, too fucking bad."
- Billy Corgan -
"Every pillar that's set up is meant to be knocked
over. All you have to be afraid of is what people are gonna think."
- Billy Corgan -
"When I think of famous, I think of serial killers or
politicians. I think being in a band is just an excuse to not work."
- Billy Corgan -
"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 you're not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song
'Cow'."
- Billy Corgan
-
"The whole point of the Smashing Pumpkins was to blow
everybody away, so it didn't make sense to be funny at the same time. We were
too busy trying to pummel your fucking head in."
- Billy Corgan -
"The closer I get back to being who I really am, the
stronger the music gets."
-
Billy Corgan -
"In the same old haunts I still find my
friends."
- Billy Corgan
-
"Well, we have brought certain things upon ourselves.
I've certainly brought things upon us with my mouth."
- 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 to their bodies. We're just a
rock band."
- Billy Corgan
-
"I was a jock but I wasn't on the sports team. I
played guitar, but I didn't hang with the stoners.,I just couldn't hang in any
way, and when you're young and you can't hang, you oppose. So I was
anti-everything. Fuck you all."
- 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 think it's probably because we didn't do dumb
things like, 'Wave your hands in the air' that we suffered a little, but I would
rather suffer and not be a fool."
- Billy Corgan -
