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I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

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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Johnny Goat
William Patrick Corgan
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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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To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.
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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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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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Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.
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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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A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
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I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens.
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