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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
Guitarist
Musician
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Billy Burke
Corgan
Johnny Goat
William Patrick Corgan
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I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.
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I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.
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I've become a guy who's like a complaining, whining neurotic.
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That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.
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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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I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.
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It's what the mainstream does - they absorb things and they blunt the power of it. And so the next generation and the next generation has to become more shocking and more provocative in order to get any rise out of anybody.
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