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I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.
Billy Corgan
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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
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William Patrick Corgan
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Like any form of death, at some point you just have to get up and say yeah I'll take it, whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen and sorta chop your head off. It's easy to avoid all that...there's always another moment, another girl, another high, another drug, there's always something to distract you.
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Well, we have brought certain things upon ourselves. I've certainly brought things upon us with my mouth.
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I work differently than most people.
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Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose
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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.
Billy Corgan
Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.
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It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound. And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking.
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I'm passionate about creating new systems that are more holistic to humankind. What do I mean by that? I mean, create new systems of business so that people with ethics both exploit their goods and their gifts while not exploiting the earth, exploiting one another.
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Beware of those angels with their wings glued on.
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I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.
Billy Corgan
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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Everybody I'm working with now is a friend. And I would be very, very remiss to work with anybody in the future who has not shown me who they really are.
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There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.
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If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?
Billy Corgan
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My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.
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I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.
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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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