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Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.

Billy Corgan

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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
Guitarist
Musician
Poet
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Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Billy Burke
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Johnny Goat
William Patrick Corgan
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We love cats more than we love women [with Marilyn Manson].
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If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
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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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I rummage around in artistic things from the past. If you don't understand the context, they wouldn't make any sense. I rummage around in conceptual ideas of the future, but if you don't know the source of the thinking, [it] wouldn't make any sense.
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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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I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens.
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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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The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
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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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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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Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.
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I'm a Pisces, and Pisces have this weird inability to be completely spontaneous. We're too conscious of our actions. I've always been way too sensible for my own good.
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I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.
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I want to make great songs.
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I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.
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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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