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This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.

Billy Corgan

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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
Guitarist
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Billy Burke
Corgan
Johnny Goat
William Patrick Corgan
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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.
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Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.
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People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
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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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You give me a @#$%& kazoo and I'll write you a good song.
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We don't make music for people to take drugs to, we make music for people to live their life.
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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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To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.
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I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.
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I was part of a generation that changed the world - and it was taken over by poseurs.
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Like any form of death, at some point you just have to get up and say yeah I'll take it, whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen and sorta chop your head off. It's easy to avoid all that...there's always another moment, another girl, another high, another drug, there's always something to distract you.
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There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.
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The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
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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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At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.
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To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.
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My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.
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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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Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.
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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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