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Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.
Billy Corgan
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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
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William Patrick Corgan
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It's what the mainstream does - they absorb things and they blunt the power of it. And so the next generation and the next generation has to become more shocking and more provocative in order to get any rise out of anybody.
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I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.
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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.
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I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.
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I was part of a generation that changed the world - and it was taken over by poseurs.
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You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.
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I've become a guy who's like a complaining, whining neurotic.
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I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.
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We're both cat lovers [with Marilyn Manson].
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I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps forward and says, Why are you being calculated? Calculated seems to assume a sinister intent. My intent is always for artistic effect.
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James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.
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The difficulty, if you're in the world - and this is for anybody - is the eventual disappointment that comes with having to meet other versions of reality. Imposed systems that ask you to compromise or sacrifice things which you consider holy or sacred.
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I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine.
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I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.
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You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.
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I usually wake up far after breakfast. That's as much as you're going to find out about my dietary requirements other than marijuana and vodka.
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At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.
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If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.
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As long as you have faith, you're willing to try to take another chance. God wants you to amble toward the right spot on the horizon. The idea is that you're willing to get up and keep moving toward that light.
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We weren't like mates who decided to form a band. The other three met me because they were interested in being in the band that I was starting.
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