Billy Corgan Quotes

I love experimenting; as a singer, one needs to be versatile.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

I only have one note, let's be honest. But I'll play a different version of that one note.

Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.

Me jumping on a song with Ariana Grande is just showing versatility, you know what I'm saying?

I think that music has an endless life.

Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

I think differently, I think it's about reaching everybody on every different plane and every different level, and if I could remix the song and do a dance remix, that's great. If I could do a classical version, that'll be great too. It's all just about expression.

I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.

We can be whatever we want to be. We can be a country band if we need to be. We can be a rock band if we need to be.

I play different styles, and am very good at changing how I play.

Always try and play with as many people as possible, even if it's not your style of music, because you will learn a lot.

I think all the music I do, which ties together, as far as I'm concerned, is fun and entertaining.

I've always had an instrument attached to my body.

I am a D.J., I am what I play.

Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

We could play them through the week, and then the weekend we could play the black joints. I learned to be very versatile and learned to love it. So it stays with me even up to now.

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.

I like to improvise.

I try not to shut any doors before I even get there. I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.