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The ideology of the Smashing P...

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

People think I take some sort ...

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

I'm prepared to spend the rest...

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 340 quotes

Music is your guide....

Music is your guide.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

To be able to put your arms ar...

To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

You have to be willing to deal...

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

When you actually like each ot...

When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

To re-embrace what I once love...

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

At some point, you protest too...

At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

I'm an experimental artist in ...

I'm an experimental artist in a field that doesn't celebrate experimentation. It celebrates self-destruction, which I guess you could say is a creative endeavor.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

I've rarely done anything that...

I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps forward and says, 'Why are you being calculated?' Calculated seems to assume a sinister intent. My intent is always for artistic effect.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

Usually the intention of the a...

Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they don't get so they don't think it's funny.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

I've had a lot of things rende...

I've had a lot of things rendered as not being effective or as some indication of my lack of sanity, only to be praised ten, fifteen, twenty years later for what I did once in this overt consciousness.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

I don't think I'm before my ti...

I don't think I'm before my time, I just don't think I'm in my time.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

I rummage around in artistic t...

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.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

Being in a rock band is just a...

Being in a rock band is just an excuse not to get a job

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

I want to make great songs....

I want to make great songs.

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If you're really going to unco...

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.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

The point is to let the music ...

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

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

The music business - and I gue...

The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading edge of where everything is going, but you can't be too far.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....