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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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William Patrick Corgan
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Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?
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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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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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The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.
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I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.
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Destruction is a true sign of devotion. As I always tell my girlfriend when she threatens to kill me. 'You should kill me and it would tell me that you love me.
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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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In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.
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I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails we've always been on our terms.
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I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine.
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In 1992, with the weight of a perceived world on our shoulders, we disappeared into a parking garage to write the songs that would change the course of our lives forever. 'Siamese Dream' represents all of our dreams coming true, while the dreams of a happy band fell apart.
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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.
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I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.
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I work differently than most people.
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We are the most beloved and hated band in the world.
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I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.
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My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.
Billy Corgan
I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.
Billy Corgan
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