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Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

Billy Corgan

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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
Guitarist
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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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I feel completely free to do whatever I want and how I want to do it. I feel unburdened by my past.
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If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.
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I was part of a generation that changed the world - and it was taken over by poseurs.
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When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.
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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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I use music as some kind of weird salvation to get away from life
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Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.
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I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.
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If the next record is no better than Gish, then we've failed.
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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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We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.
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Once a pumpkin, Always a pumpkin.
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