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If the next record is no better than Gish, then we've failed.

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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
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Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.
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That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.
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You give me a @#$%& kazoo and I'll write you a good song.
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Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.
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I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.
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Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?
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I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.
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For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right.
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We can look you in the eye and talk to you about life, heart, love rock'n'roll, whatever, but we do not have the moral authority to tell people how to vote or what to do with their bodies. We are just a rock band.
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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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I was part of a generation that changed the world - and it was taken over by poseurs.
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For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.
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I mean, I'm certainly not a 'teaophyte,' or whatever the word would be.
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It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound. And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking.
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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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My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.
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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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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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People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we're the same way.
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The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.
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