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I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

Billy Corgan

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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
Guitarist
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Billy Burke
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Johnny Goat
William Patrick Corgan
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Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose
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Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.
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To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.
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Beware of those angels with their wings glued on.
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