In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
Billy Corgan
I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.
I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.
I just don't want to live in the past. I'm really disappointed by so many people of my generation who - in order to promote their new work... →
The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put... →
To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.
People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.
Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.
John Corigliano
There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.
Don Cornelius