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We don't make music for people to take drugs to, we make music for people to live their life.

Billy Corgan

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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
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I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.
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My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.
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