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Most great records really start with the drums.

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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
Guitarist
Musician
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Billy Burke
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Johnny Goat
William Patrick Corgan
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I really think it's a white, bourgeois idea to pretend that you don't have influences. It seems to be the obsession strictly of white people in college.
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Fur is a contentious issue. Meat is a contentious issue. GMOs are a contentious issue. I think this whole thing going on about whether or not products should be labeled if they have GMOs in them - I, as a consumer, would like to know if I'm eating GMO food. If I choose to buy it then it's my choice.
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I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.
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If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and your psyche that are really uncomfortable to face: your own ambition, your own greed, your own avarice, your own jealousies, and anything that would get in the way of the purity of your own artistic voice.
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We had a wonderful time with this kind of grunge awareness, where suddenly rock was cool again. People wanted to head loud guitars. It was a great time, and I'm glad we were there. But the gimmick part has worn off.
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Every year that goes by, I lose that much more motivation to play rock.
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What has gone on in my childhood, and the personal problems that we've had in the band, have given a lot of people hope. (It shows) if you keep your nose pointed straight you can actually get somewhere -- to a happy place.
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I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.
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And the world so hard to understand is the world you can't live without.
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I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.
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I've become a guy who's like a complaining, whining neurotic.
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Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.
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I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.
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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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To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.
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I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.
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I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.
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To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.
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I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.
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Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.
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