#we

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#answer #artists #belong #best #conversation

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#been #done #generation #i #look

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#conflict #direct #i #point #reached

地球全体をターゲットと自然に考え、欧米近代以来の思想に基づいた世界全体への関与の意志を持ち、さらにその背景には、濃淡の違いこそあれカリフォルニアン・イデオロギーが存在し、それらが選択的に組み合わされて、様々なサービスやムーブメントにおける「グローバル展開への強烈な意志」が生まれている。「グローバルウェブ」の背景を、私たちはそのように理解すべきだと思うのです。[45ページ] ↗

— 梅田望夫

#open-education #education

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

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

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

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

There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young. ↗

— George Thorogood

#because #bring #coming #daughters #grandfathers