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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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We don't make music for people to take drugs to, we make music for people to live their life.
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In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.
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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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I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.
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I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.
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I'm a Pisces, and Pisces have this weird inability to be completely spontaneous. We're too conscious of our actions. I've always been way too sensible for my own good.
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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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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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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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I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.
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At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.
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Well, we have brought certain things upon ourselves. I've certainly brought things upon us with my mouth.
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That's the real endeavor: to try to create that direct conduit from the pure consciousness of your creative voice to the person who's a craftsman who can go into the world and consistently deliver new things worth paying attention to.
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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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That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.
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I mean, I'm certainly not a 'teaophyte,' or whatever the word would be.
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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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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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