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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
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Billy Burke
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William Patrick Corgan
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Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.
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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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Shave your head, wear a 'ZERO' shirt. Take away your identity. What do you have? You still have yourself.
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I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.
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I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.
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I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.
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We can look you in the eye and talk to you about life, heart, love rock'n'roll, whatever, but we do not have the moral authority to tell people how to vote or what to do with their bodies. We are just a rock band.
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The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.
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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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Live simply make compassionate choices when it comes to food.
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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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Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.
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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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When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.
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I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.
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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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I usually wake up far after breakfast. That's as much as you're going to find out about my dietary requirements other than marijuana and vodka.
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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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