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When you present people with things from the heart and from the soul, they make better choices: They make better choices about their bodies, they make better choices about their partners, they make better choices about the environment.

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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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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Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.
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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 didn't find Jesus. He's been there the whole time.
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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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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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I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.
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Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.
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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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Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.
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I mean, I'm certainly not a 'teaophyte,' or whatever the word would be.
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I know how stupid people can be. I've played in front of 5,000 people that bought a ticket to my concert, and some guy who's bought a ticket decides he's going to throw a bottle at my head. That's a simple act of stupidity. That's not even defiance.
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Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.
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The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.
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You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.
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When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.
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As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.
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I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.
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Well, we have brought certain things upon ourselves. I've certainly brought things upon us with my mouth.
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You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.
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