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I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.

Billy Corgan

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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
Guitarist
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
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Billy Burke
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William Patrick Corgan
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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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I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.
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I mean, I'm certainly not a 'teaophyte,' or whatever the word would be.
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In the music business I am surrounded by people who don't view music as a sacred voice. They view music as something that they can use and exploit, often times lazily. They have no sense of the tradition, they have no sense of honor about those who came before and charted the path.
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The title of a song is like the wrapping on a present.
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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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I work differently than most people.
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If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and your psyche that are really uncomfortable to face: your own ambition, your own greed, your own avarice, your own jealousies, and anything that would get in the way of the purity of your own artistic voice.
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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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As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.
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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.
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Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.
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Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.
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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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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 think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory.
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For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.
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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 think humankind is going to have to evolve into systems that are more transparent. Then people will be able to make more integral choices about the food they eat.
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I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.
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