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“I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.”
-- Billy Corgan

#Spiritual #Recovery #Journey
“Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.”
-- Billy Corgan

#Great Music #Genre
“I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.”
-- Billy Corgan

#Sick #Attacking #Valuable
“Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?”
-- Billy Corgan

#Rocks #Years #Rock And Roll
“We had a wonderful time with this kind of grunge awareness, where suddenly rock was cool again. People wanted to head loud guitars. It was a great time, and I'm glad we were there. But the gimmick part has worn off.”
-- Billy Corgan

#Rocks #Guitar #People
“To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence”
-- Billy Corgan

#Escaping #Accepted #Existence
“Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.”
-- Billy Corgan

#Real #Light #Roots
“Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.”
-- Billy Corgan

#Past #Thinking #Way
“Most great records really start with the drums.”
-- Billy Corgan

#Records
“I was part of a generation that changed the world, and it was taken over by posers.”
-- Billy Corgan

#Taken #Generations #World
“I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.”
-- Billy Corgan

#Spiritual #Rocks #Want
“We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.”
-- Billy Corgan

#Responsibility #Long #Needs
“Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.”
-- Billy Corgan

#People #Sometimes #Good Things
“Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.”
-- Billy Corgan

#Two #Floating #World
“If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.”
-- Billy Corgan

#Mean #Resistance
“I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.”
-- Billy Corgan

#Mean #Artist #Journey
“Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.”
-- Billy Corgan

#Mean #Rocks #Rock And Roll
“Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.”
-- Billy Corgan

#Jesus #Forgiving #Teach
“Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose”
-- Billy Corgan

#Judging #Standards
“The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.”
-- Billy Corgan

#People #Musician #Want
“I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour.”
-- Billy Corgan

#Baby #Hands #Hours
“I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.”
-- Billy Corgan

#Grew Up #Grew
“We've turned into a whining society.”
-- Billy Corgan

#Whining
“I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.”
-- Billy Corgan

#Play #Kind
“I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.”
-- Billy Corgan

#Generations #Looks #Done
“I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.”
-- Billy Corgan

#Thinking #Rocks #Prepared
“What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.”
-- Billy Corgan

#People #Appreciate #Trying
“I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.”
-- Billy Corgan

#Feet #Church #Going To Church
“I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.”
-- Billy Corgan

#Believe #Mean #Playing Music
“I'm not interested in pop art.”
-- Billy Corgan

#Art #Pops #Not Interested

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