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
Billy Corgan: Mienie
Odkryj ciekawe cytaty na temat mienie.
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.
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’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