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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.
Billy Corgan
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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
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In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.
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I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.
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Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.
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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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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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In 1992, with the weight of a perceived world on our shoulders, we disappeared into a parking garage to write the songs that would change the course of our lives forever. 'Siamese Dream' represents all of our dreams coming true, while the dreams of a happy band fell apart.
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I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.
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Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.
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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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Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.
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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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You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.
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People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.
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When you present people with things from the heart and from the soul, they make better choices: They make better choices about their bodies, they make better choices about their partners, they make better choices about the environment.
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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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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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The title of a song is like the wrapping on a present.
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Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?
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My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.
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If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and your psyche that are really uncomfortable to face: your own ambition, your own greed, your own avarice, your own jealousies, and anything that would get in the way of the purity of your own artistic voice.
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