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I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.
Billy Corgan
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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
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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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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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I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.
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You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.
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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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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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It seems to me that references to bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin meant more to me a year ago and all those old things are totally losing importance.
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The weird nihilism that permeates Mellon Collie is extremely relevant to what's going on right now. So many kids are intelligent and articulate, but they don't know what to do with themselves.
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There's nothing more satisfying than going to a market and meeting the person who picked the strawberries, or it's their farm that the strawberries came from, and giving them a fair value in exchange for what they're giving you.
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I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.
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Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.
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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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I didn't find Jesus. He's been there the whole time.
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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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James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.
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