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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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The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it.
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There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.
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Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.
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Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose
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I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.
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I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.
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I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think it was similarly disillusioning when you realize the mainstream just views it as like a curiosity.
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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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I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.
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All I can go on is my own value system.
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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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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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The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.
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If I had spent fourteen months in a small room with Jesus, I'd want to fist fight with him.
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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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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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When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.
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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 like my home and I like the nature.
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