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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.

Billy Corgan

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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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I rummage around in artistic things from the past. If you don't understand the context, they wouldn't make any sense. I rummage around in conceptual ideas of the future, but if you don't know the source of the thinking, [it] wouldn't make any sense.
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Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.
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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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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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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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If I had spent fourteen months in a small room with Jesus, I'd want to fist fight with him.
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People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
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My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.
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We love cats more than we love women [with Marilyn Manson].
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Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.
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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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Fur is a contentious issue. Meat is a contentious issue. GMOs are a contentious issue. I think this whole thing going on about whether or not products should be labeled if they have GMOs in them - I, as a consumer, would like to know if I'm eating GMO food. If I choose to buy it then it's my choice.
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To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.
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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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I know how stupid people can be. I've played in front of 5,000 people that bought a ticket to my concert, and some guy who's bought a ticket decides he's going to throw a bottle at my head. That's a simple act of stupidity. That's not even defiance.
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I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.
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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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Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.
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