Billy Corgan Quotes

When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.

I've always considered rock 'n' roll, the music and the dancing, an art form.

In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights.

Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.

This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.

It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease.

I see myself as an entertainer.

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

If we're karaoke-ing, I'm as likely to do Aerosmith as I am 'Sweeney Todd'.

Real entertainers love to entertain.

I feel like I'm an entertainer.

I don't sing. I don't dance.

I love any TV show that has to do with singing.

I view myself as a musician and I focus on music - other people may try to focus on the music, but the emphasis is heavily on visuals and performance. They're both equally valid, but different.

Elvis is iconic; a lot of performers today look to that for inspiration.

I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up for three or four minutes of tough, arduous, gravity-defying skating and all the stuff that goes with it.

I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.

When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.

I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.

I think I'm more entertainer than musician. I like to get with the crowd, make this night special for them.

Generally, magicians don't know what to say, so they say stupid and redundant crap like, 'Here I am holding a red ball.'

Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.

I really enjoy doing the live stuff.