Billy Corgan Quotes

Argument is conclusive … but … it does not remove doubt.

In theater, the show must go on, so you train yourself to be able to nail it every single time because that's what the audience deserves, and that's the magic of live theater.

I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?

When I get on stage, I try to win my pay: to please and that people leave satisfied... being seductive has given me good results.

You have to work the crowd.

I'm an actor. I can make anyone believe anything. I don't have to know what the hell I'm talking about.

I think working for the audience, for me, is the most fun. It's really a chance for something to work towards. It's where everything kind of comes together, and you have to make it work. You have all these people who are sitting there, wanting to have a good time and wanting to laugh. You really have no choice but to pull it out.

I took a break so that I can entertain my audience properly.

It's hard to win people's minds over. The only way to change their minds is to perform.

I can move any crowd.

One time, I palmed some medicine balls, just because people wanted to see if I could do it.

I love working in theater because it's such a challenge to have the audience right there in front of you. If you mess up, you have to figure it out and keep going. There's no take two! I do hope to return to the stage someday. I really love to sing.

What evidence would you need to see to change your mind about this?

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

What really excited me at the end was the challenge of being the best I can be and prolonging my best level and playing against the best players in the world. But now that I don't have the opportunity to play against the best players in the world when it counts, in front of fans, it doesn't excite me as much.

I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.

Exceptional claims, require exceptional evidence.

One can't believe impossible things.

I don't want them to believe me, I just want them to think.

You can't just come out and do the same moves that you always do because someone just basically came into the center of the ring and spun around on their head and did a back flip.

Audiences - they like colour, you know. I can go out there wearing a red suit, man, and they'll say I'm out of sight ... I think they should be educated; you should always drop something on an audience ... When you get in front of an audience, you should try to give 'em something. After all, they're there looking at you like this. You can't go out and give 'em nothing.

You really expose yourself when you try and go to up the volume and up the size of your performance.