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In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. ↗

— Billy Corgan

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To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#educational #reading #education

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#character #i #irritates #makes #mind

James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#bad #bad situation #band #bands #being

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#am #between #floating #here #i

Just as compulsory primary education created a market catered for by cheap dailies and weeklies, so the spread of secondary and latterly of tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought ... [The Phenomenon of Man] is written in an all but totally unintelligible style, and this is construed as prima-facie evidence of profundity. ↗

— Peter Medawar

#education

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#attitude #been #big #fight #had

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#good #guitar #guitar player #guitar playing #high

My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#company #four #i #mother #necessarily

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business. ↗

— Billy Corgan

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