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Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.

Billy Corgan

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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
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The weird nihilism that permeates Mellon Collie is extremely relevant to what's going on right now. So many kids are intelligent and articulate, but they don't know what to do with themselves.
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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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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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That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.
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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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Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.
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Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a God or Gods should pose no threat to you.
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This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.
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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 work differently than most people.
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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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Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage.
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Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.
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Once a pumpkin, Always a pumpkin.
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The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it.
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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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People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
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I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.
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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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