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There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

Billy Corgan

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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
Guitarist
Musician
Poet
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Singer-Songwriter
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Billy Burke
Corgan
Johnny Goat
William Patrick Corgan
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There's nothing more satisfying than going to a market and meeting the person who picked the strawberries, or it's their farm that the strawberries came from, and giving them a fair value in exchange for what they're giving you.
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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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To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.
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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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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 didn't find Jesus. He's been there the whole time.
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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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Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.
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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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Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.
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My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.
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I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens.
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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 mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.
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All I can go on is my own value system.
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If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?
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I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.
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We don't make music for people to take drugs to, we make music for people to live their life.
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As long as you have faith, you're willing to try to take another chance. God wants you to amble toward the right spot on the horizon. The idea is that you're willing to get up and keep moving toward that light.
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The title of a song is like the wrapping on a present.
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