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I work differently than most people.

Billy Corgan

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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
Guitarist
Musician
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Billy Burke
Corgan
Johnny Goat
William Patrick Corgan
Differently
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To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.
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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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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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Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.
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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 did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.
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If I had spent fourteen months in a small room with Jesus, I'd want to fist fight with him.
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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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Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.
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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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Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.
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Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.
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I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.
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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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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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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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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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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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