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Pumpkins are the only living organisms with triangle eyes. -- Harland Williams
Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs. -- Billy Corgan
I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan. -- Billy Corgan
I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could. -- Nate Ruess
The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band. -- Billy Corgan
I want to be 'Jimmy Chamberlin, the drummer, the musician who's done many things,' not just 'that guy from the Smashing Pumpkins.' -- Jimmy Chamberlin
The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on. -- Billy Corgan
When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray. -- Amy Poehler
The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too. -- Billy Corgan
I learned how to play guitar by playing along to Jane's Addiction records and Smashing Pumpkins records, things you can totally hear if you listen to my guitar. -- Chino Moreno
You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way. -- Billy Corgan
I always wanted to be in this role, as a songwriter. In the Pumpkins, it was always impossible because Corgan would wake up and write five songs. He was so prolific, there wasn't a lot of room for anyone else. -- Jimmy Chamberlin
After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found myself writing all these songs, just taking advantage of the relaxed situation. I wrote about 30 songs in about 30 days. -- Jimmy Chamberlin
Part of the reason that I left the Pumpkins is because it was becoming all-consuming. Being the only member of that band who had two kids and a wife, it was a hard decision, but ultimately it was a decision I'm comfortable with. -- Jimmy Chamberlin
The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen. I liked Shirley Manson because she reminded me of Annie Lennox. They both have these deep, sexy, powerful alto voices. -- Amy Lee
I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not by being whatever. Sometimes I act like a jerk, but I think people respect me for being myself. That's the ultimate thing about the Smashing Pumpkins. -- Billy Corgan
I was never able to get through Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I've never been able to make it through. And I love the Smashing Pumpkins, they're one of my favorite bands ever, but I've never been able to listen to the whole thing all the way through. -- John Wozniak
When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian corn on the front stoop; there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes. -- Susan Orlean
In Britain, the major public holiday used to be Guy Fawkes Day... that was celebrated on November 5th with things like bonfires and fireworks... I think that made Halloween seem preferable. The idea of having pumpkins and costumes and parties seemed much more appealing than burning down your neighborhood. -- Lisa Morton
My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world. -- Jack Antonoff
I learned to glitter the pumpkins for Halloween not because I went into it thinking, 'I'm going to glitter some pumpkins!' No. I bought all of these big, cold, slimy, disgusting pumpkins and tried to carve them, and it was gross, so I had to find something else to do with them. Glitter was life-changing. -- Jen Lancaster
I left the Pumpkins in 2010, and I just took a year off to hang with my family and be with my daughter and my son and my wife, and just get acclimatised to being off the road. Then I started looking at what was going to be the next part of my career/legacy, whatever you want to call it. -- Jimmy Chamberlin
Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow. -- Alexander McCall Smith
The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster. -- Nick Harkaway
Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on. -- Neil Gaiman
...dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field... -- John J. Geddes
...dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field... -- John J. Geddes
We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well, there doesn't seem anything else for an ex-President to do but to go into the country and raise big pumpkins. -- Chester A. Arthur
Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle. -- Ray Bradbury
Garbage in, garbage out. Or rather more felicitously: the tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster. -- Nick Harkaway
Women are like pumpkins; you search and search for the perfect one, bring it home, and the next thing you know, you're looking for a knife. -- Dana Gould
I saw thousands of pumpkins last nightcome floating in on the tide,bumping up against the rocks androlling up on the beaches;it must be Halloween in the sea -- Richard Brautigan
Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart. -- Ramakrishna
In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats. -- Gregory Maguire
This year I invested in pumpkins. They've been going up the whole month of October and I got a feeling they're going to peak right around January. Then bang! That's when I'll cash in. -- Homer
Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams, and Hagrid's pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds. -- J. K. Rowling

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