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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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Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.
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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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Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.
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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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All I can go on is my own value system.
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I know how stupid people can be. I've played in front of 5,000 people that bought a ticket to my concert, and some guy who's bought a ticket decides he's going to throw a bottle at my head. That's a simple act of stupidity. That's not even defiance.
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I rummage around in artistic things from the past. If you don't understand the context, they wouldn't make any sense. I rummage around in conceptual ideas of the future, but if you don't know the source of the thinking, [it] wouldn't make any sense.
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Every year that goes by, I lose that much more motivation to play rock.
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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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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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The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.
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I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.
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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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Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.
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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 the worst band in America... That makes us the best.
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I usually wake up far after breakfast. That's as much as you're going to find out about my dietary requirements other than marijuana and vodka.
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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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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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