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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
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Billy Burke
Corgan
Johnny Goat
William Patrick Corgan
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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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I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.
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The title of a song is like the wrapping on a present.
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I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens.
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I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.
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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 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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Destruction is a true sign of devotion. As I always tell my girlfriend when she threatens to kill me. 'You should kill me and it would tell me that you love me.
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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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A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
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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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Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.
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And the world so hard to understand is the world you can't live without.
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I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.
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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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We're both cat lovers [with Marilyn Manson].
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We are the most beloved and hated band in the world.
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