Billy Corgan Quotes

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.

Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.

I make the kind of music I like.

All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

I never thought of myself as being the singer that wanted to create an identity and then stick to that.

I can play whatever I want and play whatever the fans want to hear. I don't have to be like a salesperson up there talking about my CD through the whole show.

I don't want people to think like Roddy is John Legend now. I just felt like once I got to a certain point, that I wanted to expand musically.

If there's only one genre that it's possible to listen to or possible to see live, then how can you explore different styles? How can you evolve, musically?

I don't want to put myself in any kind of a box as far as my sound goes, because being an artist is fluid. If you look at a painter's work, a lot of times, it's similar in style, but other times - over even a year's period - it can change so much. I'm just going with the flow.

I never really had the chance to play the kind of music I wanted to play. It was always just classical. It had its limits. I play piano now and again in the new forms of music that I actually want to play, but at the time, it was something that I just kind of moved past.

My music's matured so much, I don't have to create any barriers.

I don't jump on to singing every song of mine because I feel that will make my music repetitive.

I'm aware of the subgenres and why they exist. But I don't feel like I have to limit myself. I don't feel like I just have to play deep house, just play tribal house, just play progressive house. I wouldn't feel right if I had to limit myself.

Of course, I'm open to all kinds of genres. In my head, there are no demarcations.

All of this music, It's definitely been the most freeing thing that I've ever done.

I want to explore diverse genres.

I think every artist reaches a place where they want to transcend genre.

If you're not changing what you're doing and exploring different parts of your musical output, I think you're slowly dying.

The main thing for all of us was having a ballad, a slower song. Finally, they get to hear more of a vulnerable side to us! We didn't really have that in 'Reflection,' and that's something we all fought for.

I always want to keep moving musically and trying new things.

I don't like to focus on just hip-hop because with hip-hop, I can only do so much; with a vocalist, I can only do so much, but the limitations are varying.

I've always been very open and unspecific about what kind of music I want to make.