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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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Billy Burke
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William Patrick Corgan
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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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Everybody can close their eyes, picture a dream house or a perfect place [where] they'd like to have a picnic. But actually creating it - how do you create something from nothing? Anyone who's creative understands that that's the magic, that's the alchemy.
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This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.
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If the next record is no better than Gish, then we've failed.
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The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.
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I like my home and I like the nature.
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You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.
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I want to make great songs.
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The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.
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The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.
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You give me a @#$%& kazoo and I'll write you a good song.
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Most great records really start with the drums.
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I know how stupid people can be. I've played in front of 5,000 people that bought a ticket to my concert, and some guy who's bought a ticket decides he's going to throw a bottle at my head. That's a simple act of stupidity. That's not even defiance.
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Well, we have brought certain things upon ourselves. I've certainly brought things upon us with my mouth.
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That's the real endeavor: to try to create that direct conduit from the pure consciousness of your creative voice to the person who's a craftsman who can go into the world and consistently deliver new things worth paying attention to.
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Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.
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The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.
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There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.
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Destruction is a true sign of devotion. As I always tell my girlfriend when she threatens to kill me. 'You should kill me and it would tell me that you love me.
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It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound. And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking.
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