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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
Guitarist
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
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Billy Burke
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Johnny Goat
William Patrick Corgan
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I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails we've always been on our terms.
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Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.
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I want to make great songs.
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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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Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.
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I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.
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We are the most beloved and hated band in the world.
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As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.
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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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I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.
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All I can go on is my own value system.
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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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I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.
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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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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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When you present people with things from the heart and from the soul, they make better choices: They make better choices about their bodies, they make better choices about their partners, they make better choices about the environment.
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Everybody I'm working with now is a friend. And I would be very, very remiss to work with anybody in the future who has not shown me who they really are.
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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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That was a terrible Super Bowl, I have to say. I mean you got the big Peyton Manning walk off into the sunset win, but what a shnoozo.
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You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our own demise.
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