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To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.

Billy Corgan

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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
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Billy Burke
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William Patrick Corgan
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James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.
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Once a pumpkin, Always a pumpkin.
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My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.
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The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.
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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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I want to make great songs.
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The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.
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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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I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine.
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We're both cat lovers [with Marilyn Manson].
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Everybody can close their eyes, picture a dream house or a perfect place [where] they'd like to have a picnic. But actually creating it - how do you create something from nothing? Anyone who's creative understands that that's the magic, that's the alchemy.
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Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.
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I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.
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We love cats more than we love women [with Marilyn Manson].
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Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.
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Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose
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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 view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.
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Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.
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