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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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Billy Burke
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Johnny Goat
William Patrick Corgan
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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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The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.
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For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.
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I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.
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The title of a song is like the wrapping on a present.
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As long as you have faith, you're willing to try to take another chance. God wants you to amble toward the right spot on the horizon. The idea is that you're willing to get up and keep moving toward that light.
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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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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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I like my home and I like the nature.
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Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage.
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I use music as some kind of weird salvation to get away from life
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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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Every year that goes by, I lose that much more motivation to play rock.
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