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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
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Billy Burke
Corgan
Johnny Goat
William Patrick Corgan
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Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing.
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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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Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.
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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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If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?
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I think humankind is going to have to evolve into systems that are more transparent. Then people will be able to make more integral choices about the food they eat.
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What has gone on in my childhood, and the personal problems that we've had in the band, have given a lot of people hope. (It shows) if you keep your nose pointed straight you can actually get somewhere -- to a happy place.
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You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.
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It seems to me that references to bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin meant more to me a year ago and all those old things are totally losing importance.
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I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.
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I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps forward and says, Why are you being calculated? Calculated seems to assume a sinister intent. My intent is always for artistic effect.
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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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It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.
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Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.
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I mean, I'm certainly not a 'teaophyte,' or whatever the word would be.
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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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Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.
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In 1992, with the weight of a perceived world on our shoulders, we disappeared into a parking garage to write the songs that would change the course of our lives forever. 'Siamese Dream' represents all of our dreams coming true, while the dreams of a happy band fell apart.
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Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.
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Shave your head, wear a 'ZERO' shirt. Take away your identity. What do you have? You still have yourself.
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