Billy Corgan Quotes

I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

Old is always fifteen years from now.

Dissidents should be paid 13 months' salary for a year, otherwise our mindless unanimity will bring us to an even more hopeless state of stagnation. It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.

Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.

If everyone thinks you're doing the right thing, then everyone would be doing it. Have a controversial strategy.

The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.

I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or "what you're doing isn't jazz," are just scared because they can't do it. A lot of them just aren't talented enough to do anything new, honestly. It's the people who are talented enough and who have the open mind and who are forward-thinkers are the ones who are doing something new. You tend to hate on what you can't produce.

You have to think outside the box. The world is changing every day, the music industry is so different but I think the more creative you are the better.

I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with?

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.".

Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.

The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.

All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.

We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.

We who have been ahead in STYLE have usually been also ahead in our thinking.

I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm.

I think if you're behind the times, you've failed. I think the only way to measure success is being right on time with what people want.

So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.