Quotessence
Home / Authors / Billy Corgan
Billy Corgan

Billy Corgan Quotes

Musician

Filter quotes by topic

AllPeopleThinkingIfsRocksBandWantWorldKindKnowsSongTryingWayMeanIdeasLongPlayYearsGuyArtistGiving

Famous Billy Corgan Quotes

“That's the age that people are exploited, exploitable, and they're easily manipulated. The problem with me is, you can't manipulate me anymore. I've seen it, I know it, I've been there. And that's partially why, particularly in America, you see issues with artists as they get older. And they like to keep it a young man's game. Because that's how they can fudge around with the rules.”

PeopleKnowsMenProblemAgeAmericaYoungArtistGamesIssuesYoung ManManipulateFudge
Author:Billy Corgan
Create image

“Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing. And [the public] actually puts all their energy into reasserting or re-establishing what the artist has long ago left behind. Because that's what they want. The source of creativity, the gift that's been given, be damned.”

WantLongArtistEnergyLeftGivenBehindsCreativityGrowingSourceDemandExpectationsLong AgoLeft Behind
Author:Billy Corgan
Create image

“There's something going on right now in America, where the American spirit or character is reasserting itself around liberty. I think it's an important time, and I'm trying to document that as an artist. If I just filter what I read through the media, if I just go through what I read through the media, I'm not really in touch with the world I grew up in. I know there's a gap there, I talk to my relatives, I talk to people I meet traveling around, and their mind is on something completely different.”

PeopleThinkingWorldTryingMindImportantDifferentCharacterSpiritArtistLiberty
Author:Billy Corgan
Create image