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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
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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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In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.
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It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound. And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking.
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Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.
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It seems to me that references to bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin meant more to me a year ago and all those old things are totally losing importance.
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I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens.
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If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.
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Once a pumpkin, Always a pumpkin.
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I'm from a lower middle class background all my family were immigrants.
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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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I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think it was similarly disillusioning when you realize the mainstream just views it as like a curiosity.
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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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These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.
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We love cats more than we love women [with Marilyn Manson].
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We're the worst band in America... That makes us the best.
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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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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 think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory.
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