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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
Guitarist
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Billy Burke
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William Patrick Corgan
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I know how stupid people can be. I've played in front of 5,000 people that bought a ticket to my concert, and some guy who's bought a ticket decides he's going to throw a bottle at my head. That's a simple act of stupidity. That's not even defiance.
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There's nothing more satisfying than going to a market and meeting the person who picked the strawberries, or it's their farm that the strawberries came from, and giving them a fair value in exchange for what they're giving you.
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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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It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.
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If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?
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I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.
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I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.
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We love cats more than we love women [with Marilyn Manson].
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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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I'm passionate about creating new systems that are more holistic to humankind. What do I mean by that? I mean, create new systems of business so that people with ethics both exploit their goods and their gifts while not exploiting the earth, exploiting one another.
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I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.
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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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In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.
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Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.
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I didn't find Jesus. He's been there the whole time.
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Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.
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If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
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We had a wonderful time with this kind of grunge awareness, where suddenly rock was cool again. People wanted to head loud guitars. It was a great time, and I'm glad we were there. But the gimmick part has worn off.
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Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.
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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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