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You give me a @#$%& kazoo and I'll write you a good song.

Billy Corgan

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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
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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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These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.
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Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.
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I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.
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I work differently than most people.
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All I can go on is my own value system.
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I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.
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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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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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Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?
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If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?
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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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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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Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.
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In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.
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My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.
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Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.
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For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.
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We are the most beloved and hated band in the world.
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In the music business I am surrounded by people who don't view music as a sacred voice. They view music as something that they can use and exploit, often times lazily. They have no sense of the tradition, they have no sense of honor about those who came before and charted the path.
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