Billy Corgan (William Patrick "Billy" Corgan Jr.) Quotes

The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.

Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins

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• Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

  

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• Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

  

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• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

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• We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.

  

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• I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.

  

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• Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.

  

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• I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'

  

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• I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

  

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• In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.

  

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• I put some songs on the Internet back in 2009 - that's kind of how everything started with Washed Out. I had never really planned on being in a band or anything like that. It was kind of a hobby I did on my own, just recording music.

  

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• There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.

  

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• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

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• The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.

  

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• I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.

  

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• I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.

  

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• Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

  

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• There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.

  

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• To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

  

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• The shrine is vowed to freedom, but, my friend, Freedom is but a means to gain an end. Freedom should build the temple, but the shrine Be consecrate to thought still more divine. The human bliss which angel hopes foresaw Is liberty to comprehend the law. Give, then, thy book a larger scope and frame, Comprising means and end in Truth's great name.

  

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• The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Rock
  • Ego