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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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Billy Burke
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Johnny Goat
William Patrick Corgan
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I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.
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Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.
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We're both cat lovers [with Marilyn Manson].
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I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.
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I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.
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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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I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps forward and says, Why are you being calculated? Calculated seems to assume a sinister intent. My intent is always for artistic effect.
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You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.
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Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing.
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If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
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I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.
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I'm from a lower middle class background all my family were immigrants.
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I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine.
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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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It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.
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I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.
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At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.
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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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The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.
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