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Billy Corgan, born on March 17, 1967, is an American musician, songwriter, and music producer. He is best known as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter for the band Smashing Pumpkins, which achieved significant success in the mid-1990s. Corgan is renowned for his unique musical style and profound lyrics, which have had a profound impact on modern rock music.

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“What has gone on in my childhood, and the personal problems that we've had in the band, have given a lot of people hope. (It shows) if you keep your nose pointed straight you can actually get somewhere -- to a happy place.”

People Ifs Shows Problem Given Gone Childhood Band Noses Happy Place Personal Problems

Author:Billy Corgan

“Instead of taking the 'I'm cool, I hope you adore me' path (with my music), I chose the path of how to connect. I think that's the reason a lot of people feel a deeper connection with our band than other bands, and I also feel that's why people polarize on us. If you don't get it, it seems preposterous; if you do get it, it's really heavy - it has a weight to it.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Reason Seems Path Band Connections Weight Heavy Deeper Adore

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“The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.”

Ifs Mean Music Is

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“If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.”

Ifs Millions Records Rocks Punk Punk Rock

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“The difficulty, if you're in the world - and this is for anybody - is the eventual disappointment that comes with having to meet other versions of reality. Imposed systems that ask you to compromise or sacrifice things which you consider holy or sacred.”

Ifs World Reality Asks Sacrifice Holy Difficulty Sacred Disappointment Versions Compromise

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“I have a musical ancestry as much as I have a family ancestry. Honoring those ancestors gives you access to a greater source of appreciation and information than you would have if you were just going on your own ego system.”

Ifs Giving Greater Information Source Ego Musical Appreciation Access Ancestor Ancestry

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“If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and your psyche that are really uncomfortable to face: your own ambition, your own greed, your own avarice, your own jealousies, and anything that would get in the way of the purity of your own artistic voice.”

Ifs Way Faces Artist Voice Personality Ambition Greed Access Artistic Uncomfortable Purity Avarice

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“If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.”

Ifs Sometimes Hard Belief Our Family Belief Systems

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“Fur is a contentious issue. Meat is a contentious issue. GMOs are a contentious issue. I think this whole thing going on about whether or not products should be labeled if they have GMOs in them - I, as a consumer, would like to know if I'm eating GMO food. If I choose to buy it then it's my choice.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Whole Choices Issues Products Eating Consumers Meat Fur Gmos Contentious Gmo Foods

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“I don't like that the government is going to manipulate the information to try to convince me that what I'm eating is not what I'm really eating. If people choose to eat cardboard because it's ten cents cheaper, then let them. That's at the root of freedom. But in the reverse, I'd like to know if what I'm eating or consuming or buying is somehow hurting or exploiting someone in another part of the planet.”

People Ifs Knows Trying Government Hurt Information Planets Ten Eating Roots Buying Convince Cents Reverse Manipulate Consuming Cheaper

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“I rummage around in artistic things from the past. If you don't understand the context, they wouldn't make any sense. I rummage around in conceptual ideas of the future, but if you don't know the source of the thinking, [it] wouldn't make any sense.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Ideas Past Source Artistic

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“If the next record is no better than Gish, then we've failed.”

Ifs Next Records

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“The music is all we care about -- so if that's bad, then we're bad.”

Ifs Care Music Is

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“Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.”

People Ifs Knows Want Needs Giving Break Too Much Music Is

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“If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do.”

Ifs Want Able Simple Band Ethics

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“I don't know if God would agree with me, but believing in God is kind of unimportant when compared to believing in yourself. Because if you go with the idea that God gave you a mind and an ability to judge things, then he would want you to believe in yourself and not worry about believing in him. By believing in yourself you will come to the conclusion that will point to something.”

Ifs Knows Want Mind Believe Kind Ideas Ability Worry Judging Agree Conclusion Believe In Yourself Believe In God Believe In You Unimportant

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“If I had spent fourteen months in a small room with Jesus, I'd want to fist fight with him.”

Ifs Want Fighting Jesus Rooms Months Fists Fourteen Small Rooms

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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.”

Ifs Should Believe Ideas Threat Don't Believe Believe In God Exploring

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“If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.”

Ifs Mean Resistance

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“I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.”

Ifs Trying Believe I Believe Company Fields Corners Protest Racist Globes Wrigley Field

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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.”

Ifs Believe Mean I Believe Prepared Clubs I Believe In Playing Music

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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.”

Ifs Kind Class Fit Trendy Celebrity Status

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“I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Knowing Opening Posts Modernism Skeletons Opening Up Post Modernism

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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.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Kind Long Hard Focus

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“People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.”

People Ifs Want Trying Different Play Bigs Song Deals Different Things Big Deal Old Song

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“You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.”

Ifs Kind Fun Adapting

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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.”

People Ifs Men Want Government Fighting Rocks Fronts He Man Great Things Rock N Roll Chasing Windmills

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“If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?”

Ifs Perfect Practice Practice Makes Perfect Music Practice Rhetorical Question Perfect Practice No One's Perfect

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About the Author

Born: March 17, 1967
Known for: Musician
Quotes: 280

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