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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.

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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In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.
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I'm a Pisces, and Pisces have this weird inability to be completely spontaneous. We're too conscious of our actions. I've always been way too sensible for my own good.
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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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The title of a song is like the wrapping on a present.
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Live simply make compassionate choices when it comes to food.
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I'm passionate about creating new systems that are more holistic to humankind. What do I mean by that? I mean, create new systems of business so that people with ethics both exploit their goods and their gifts while not exploiting the earth, exploiting one another.
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I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.
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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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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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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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