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Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?
Billy Corgan
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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
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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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What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.
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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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I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.
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In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.
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People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
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Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.
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I didn't find Jesus. He's been there the whole time.
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Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.
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We don't make music for people to take drugs to, we make music for people to live their life.
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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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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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As a healthy person, my breakfasts are very bland and boring. Think kind of a white pasty gruel. Or there can be an occasional banana over the top.
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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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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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That was a terrible Super Bowl, I have to say. I mean you got the big Peyton Manning walk off into the sunset win, but what a shnoozo.
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Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.
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I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.
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Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.
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The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.
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