Billy Corgan: Being

Billy Corgan is American musician, songwriter, producer, and author. Explore interesting quotes on being.

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“I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not by being whatever. Sometimes I act like a jerk, but I think people respect me for being myself. That's the ultimate thing about the Smashing Pumpkins.”

Lewman, Mark. Dirt Magazine. 1992.

“The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.”

Smashing Pumpkins (1996)

“To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.”

Smashing Pumpkins (1996)

“The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it and ultimately align ourselves with who we really are. Life, experiences, traumas -- whatever -- they all add up to make you some altered version of what you are. So there's this battle that goes on between what you are and what you become, and it's been very important for me to unravel what I was taught to be or what I became. and to draw a direct parallel to music -- the closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets, because I think what talent I do have is connected to that person, it's not a manipulative process, it's intuitive. You can learn about chords and guitars, but there's a piece of you that makes it individual, and it's been a slow process for me to become whatever it is that I'm supposed to be.”

Smashing Pumpkins (1996)