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I was part of a generation that changed the world - and it was taken over by poseurs.
Billy Corgan
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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
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My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.
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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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People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.
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To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.
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It's about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to put all my anger in those words, even though I'm just as much to blame for the break-up. 'Soma' is based on the idea that a love relationship is almost the same as opium: it slowly puts you to sleep, it soothes you, and gives you the illusion of sureness and security. Very deceivable.
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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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Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.
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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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Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.
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People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we're the same way.
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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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If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?
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Most great records really start with the drums.
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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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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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Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.
Billy Corgan
I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.
Billy Corgan
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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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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