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Punk rock is not what it was in 1977 and anybody who is old enough to remember knows the difference. It's being heralded as a new movement, and we know it's bogus.- Billy Corgan
You give me a fucking kazoo and I'll write you a good song.- Billy Corgan
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.- Billy Corgan
To compile all my therapy into one sentence: As a child I learned that it was more advantageous to be this creation than it was to be who I really am. But my personality is so strong that it kind of bubbled out from underneath, and it was tough to distinguish who was the faker and who was real.- Billy Corgan
I've never had a stable life. I lived in 5 different places before I was 5. I saw divorces, messy breakups, boyfriends, girlfriends, drugs. I don't trust stability. I understand chaos. I muck things up because it forces you to react.- Billy Corgan
Long ago I found out that I couldn't be fashionable if I tried. You begin to revel in your own lack of ability to be cool.- Billy Corgan
I can't help but wear my heart on my sleeve...I'm like nerve endings.- Billy Corgan
When we're onstage we just want to create as much energy as possible, so that the actual intensity itslef leaves you with an impression.- Billy Corgan
I like rock 'n' roll, and I don't like much else.- John Lennon
I just hope we're a nice old couple living off the coast of Ireland or something like that- looking at our scrapbook of madness.- John Lennon, 1971
Love.- a young George Harrison when asked what he considered the most important thing in life
Trust the art, not the artist.- Bruce Springsteen, 1984
The friction is in living. In waking up every day. And getting through another day. That's where the friction is. And to express it in art is the job of the artist. And that's what I can do. To express it on behalf of the people who can't express it or haven't the time or ability or whatever it is. That's my job.- John Lennon
Although we have this divinity, or creativity, within us, it is covered with material energy, and a lot of the time our actions come from a very mundane level. We're like beggars in the goldmine, where everything has really enormous potential and perfection, but we're all so ignorant with the dust of our desire on our mirrors.- George Harrison, 1992
Music is the timeless experience of constant change.- Jerry Garcia
Everybody gives off a certain musical note. I think I'm F-sharp. The thing is you can go around and you meet somebody who's in F-sharp, you're in harmony, see. But if you meet somebody who's in F-unng, it's a discord: you don't get on.- Donovan
They say domesticity is the enemy of art, but I don't think it is. I had to make a decision: am I going to be just a family guy, of should I go up to London three nights a week, hit the nightclubs, occasionally drop my trousers, and swear a lot in public? I made my decision, and I feel okay with it. Ballads and babies- that's what happened to me.- Paul McCartney
I don't think I'm becoming more cynical, I've just got more evidence to back up my cynicism.- Frank Zappa, 1982
When we were kids, everyone wanted to be in the Beatles. Now we are! I'm only kidding! THAT'S A JOKE!- Bono
I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm 45.- Mick Jagger
The truth is, I'm more interested in the roll than I am in the rock.- Keith Richards
Rock won't eliminate your problems. But it will let you sort of dance all over them.- Pete Townshend
Life is what happens while you are making other plans.- John Lennon
The majority of believers have belief without understanding.- Mick Jagger