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For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right.

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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William Patrick Corgan
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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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In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.
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If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and your psyche that are really uncomfortable to face: your own ambition, your own greed, your own avarice, your own jealousies, and anything that would get in the way of the purity of your own artistic voice.
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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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Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose
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We are the most beloved and hated band in the world.
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The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.
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You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.
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Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.
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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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I like my home and I like the nature.
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I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.
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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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I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.
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We weren't like mates who decided to form a band. The other three met me because they were interested in being in the band that I was starting.
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To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.
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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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Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.
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We're both cat lovers [with Marilyn Manson].
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There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.
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