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I'm from a lower middle class background all my family were immigrants.
Billy Corgan
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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
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Billy Burke
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William Patrick Corgan
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My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.
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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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It's what the mainstream does - they absorb things and they blunt the power of it. And so the next generation and the next generation has to become more shocking and more provocative in order to get any rise out of anybody.
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A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
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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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