„Jak na niskiego kolesia, bez włosów i z krzykliwym głosem, radziłem sobie całkiem nieźle.”
For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I’ve done all right.
Źródło: „USA Today”
William Patrick „Billy” Corgan Jr. – amerykański wokalista, gitarzysta i autor piosenek, najlepiej znany jako frontman grupy The Smashing Pumpkins.
Dziennikarz muzyczny Jim DeRogatis powiedział o nim, że „ze wszystkich pamiętnych artystów ery alternatywnej, [Corgan] był najbardziej tradycyjną gwiazdą rocka, ze wszystkimi wadami i zaletami wynikającymi z tego faktu”. Po rozpadzie grupy, razem z jej perkusistą, Jimmym Chamberlinem założył krótko istniejący zespół Zwan. Następnie, po wydaniu solowego albumu i tomiku poezji, w 2005 roku ogłosił reaktywację The Smashing Pumpkins. Wikipedia

„Jak na niskiego kolesia, bez włosów i z krzykliwym głosem, radziłem sobie całkiem nieźle.”
For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I’ve done all right.
Źródło: „USA Today”
Źródło: Out on a Limb, „Details Magazine”, październik 1996
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. (ang.)
Źródło: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Success, „Live! Magazine”, sierpień 1996
„Im bardziej zbliżam się do tego kim tak naprawdę jestem, tym mocniejsza staje się muzyka.”
The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets. (ang.)
Źródło: Jim Stapleton, Smashing Pumpkins, Carlton Books Ltd., 1996.
I don’t necessarily believe that the sting of failure is a bad thing. It gives you a certain amount of freedom to just say fuck it!
Źródło: „Guitar World”, lipiec 1998
„Jestem Irlandczykiem, urodziłem się w Dzień Świętego Patryka, mam szczęście siódemki.”
I’m Irish and I was born on St. Patrick’s Day. I’m lucky sevens.
Źródło: wywiad, Chicago Sports Channel, kwiecień 1997
People always called The Cure gloomy, but listening to The Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we’re the same way. (ang.)
Źródło: wywiad, „Playboy”, 1997
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. (ang.)
Źródło: Jim Stapleton, Smashing Pumpkins, Carlton Books Ltd., 1996.
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. (ang.)
Źródło: Mark Lewman, „Dirt Magazine”, 1992
The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it’s a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too. (ang.)
Źródło: Out on a Limb, „Details Magazine”, październik 1996
„Myślę że nazywanie nas „kolejnym Jane’s Addiction” przestało istnieć.”
I think the original, "They’re the next Jane’s Addiction" things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much wiped out. (ang.)
Źródło: Jim Stapleton, Smashing Pumpkins, Carlton Books Ltd., 1996.
„Dla mnie, muzyka była ucieczką od tego nędznego istnienia.”
To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence. (ang.)
Źródło: Jim Stapleton, Smashing Pumpkins, Carlton Books Ltd., 1996.
It’s about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to put all my anger in those words, even though I’m just as much to blame for the break-up. Soma is based on the idea that a love relationship is almost the same as opium: it slowly puts you to sleep, it soothes you, and gives you the illusion of sureness and security. Very deceivable. (ang.)
Źródło: regarding Soma; van den Berg, Erik. „Smashing Pumpkins.” Oor. 10 czerwca 1993
The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band. (ang.)
Źródło: Jim Stapleton, Smashing Pumpkins, Carlton Books Ltd., 1996.
When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that’s gone before. (ang.)
Źródło: Jim Stapleton, Smashing Pumpkins, Carlton Books Ltd., 1996.
Źródło: „Icon Magazine”, sierpień 1998
Nigdy tego nie zapomnę.
Actually, I was having dinner with Michael (Stipe, of R.E.M.) when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we’d ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, "Welcome to the deep waters, kid." I’ll never forget that. (ang.)
Źródło: „Icon Magazine”, sierpień 1998
We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down. (ang.)
Źródło: Jim Stapleton, Smashing Pumpkins, Carlton Books Ltd., 1996.
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.
Źródło: „USA Today”
My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn’t like other children. (ang.)
Źródło: Jim Stapleton, Smashing Pumpkins, Carlton Books Ltd., 1996.
„Ludzie zachowujący się jakby Nirvana wynalazła grunge. Oni po prostu wzięli i uosobili go.”
People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it. (ang.)
Źródło: Jim Stapleton, Smashing Pumpkins, Carlton Books Ltd., 1996.
My mother came to a Smashing Pumpkins gig once, and I was wearing a dress. She was very upset. She said, "Everyone’s gonna think you’re a fag." I said, "Well, they already think I’m an asshole." (ang.)
Źródło: „Rolling Stone”, 23 stycznia 1997
There’s a really a cold, cold side to my personality that I’m not really comfortable with. I’m constantly dealing with that side of my personality versus my overly sentimental side… There’s just a side that’s a real motherfucker side; it’s nothing I want to admit or even look at. It’s where a lot of my strength lies. It’s been the part of me that’s been able to steel my spine against situations that probably would have broken a lot of people, or caused them to jump off the loop. (ang.)
Źródło: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Success, „Live! Magazine”, sierpień 1996
„Życie jest wszystkim i jednocześnie niczym.”
Life is everything and nothing all at once. (ang.) <br class="br">Źródło: z linijek Pisces Iscariot http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisces_Iscariot
„To nie reakcja na negatywny świat, to odpowiedź na negatywny świat.”
This is not a reaction against a negative world. It’s a response to a negative world
Źródło: regarding Adore, „Guitar World”, lipiec 1998
We’re like a really nice drink. We help people get through the day – we make life a little sunnier. I don’t think we have any profound effect. If anybody has had a profound effect, it’s The Beatles, and their effect is still minimal. There are things in the world way more important than music. Family is 50 times more important than music. (ang.)
Źródło: wywiad, „Playboy”, 1997
„Około sześciu miesięcy temu słuchałem Siamese Dream.”
Był to pierwszy raz kiedy usłyszałem własny album ponieważ odciąłem się od doświadczeń z tworzenia go. I naprawdę mnie wzruszył. Płakałem, to było takie piękne.
About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I’d ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it’s so beautiful. (ang.)
Źródło: Out on a Limb, „Details Magazine”, październik 1996
Lewman, Mark. Dirt Magazine. 1992.
“Life is everything and nothing all at once.”
From the Pisces Iscariot liner notes.
Corgan, William. Interview. 1998 Pre-Grammy Show. MTV. 25 February 1998.
"Mellon Collie and the Infinite Success." LIVE! Magazine. August 1996.
Corgan, William. Interview. Playboy. (Month?), 1997.
I'll never forget that.
Icon Magazine. April 1998.
"Out on a Limb." Details Magazine. October 1996.
“I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens.”
Corgan, William. Interview. Chicago Sports Channel. April 1997.
“This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.”
regarding Adore, Guitar World. July 1998.
Smashing Pumpkins (1996)
regarding "Soma"; van den Berg, Erik. "Smashing Pumpkins." Oor. 10 June 1993.