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It's what the mainstream does - they absorb things and they blunt the power of it. And so the next generation and the next generation has to become more shocking and more provocative in order to get any rise out of anybody.

Billy Corgan

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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
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