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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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In the music business I am surrounded by people who don't view music as a sacred voice. They view music as something that they can use and exploit, often times lazily. They have no sense of the tradition, they have no sense of honor about those who came before and charted the path.
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Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a God or Gods should pose no threat to you.
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Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.
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I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.
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The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
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Live simply make compassionate choices when it comes to food.
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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.
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Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.
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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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I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.
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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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Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.
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There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.
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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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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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If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
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Most great records really start with the drums.
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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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Once a pumpkin, Always a pumpkin.
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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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