#ed

I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#crippled #got #i #lumps #take

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

— Billy Corgan

#attain #could #i #idealism #kind

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

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

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#cannot #defend #how #i #imagine

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

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

We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money. ↗

— Ville Valo

#aware #bands #booze #early #early age

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#before #did #doing #else #guitar

Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can't figure out why. ↗

— George Thorogood

#call #chagrin #day #decided #doing