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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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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
Guitarist
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Billy Burke
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Johnny Goat
William Patrick Corgan
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What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.
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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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You give me a @#$%& kazoo and I'll write you a good song.
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We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.
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I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.
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Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.
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I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.
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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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Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.
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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 deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.
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At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.
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People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.
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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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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 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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Every year that goes by, I lose that much more motivation to play rock.
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We're both cat lovers [with Marilyn Manson].
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