Quote #8

The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.

More from Billy Corgan

  1. To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.
  2. We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.
  3. My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.
  4. People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it.
  5. When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.
  6. 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…
  7. The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.
  8. This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.

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