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I want to make great songs.

Billy Corgan

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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
Guitarist
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
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Billy Burke
Corgan
Johnny Goat
William Patrick Corgan
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I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think it was similarly disillusioning when you realize the mainstream just views it as like a curiosity.
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What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.
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It's about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to put all my anger in those words, even though I'm just as much to blame for the break-up. 'Soma' is based on the idea that a love relationship is almost the same as opium: it slowly puts you to sleep, it soothes you, and gives you the illusion of sureness and security. Very deceivable.
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And the world so hard to understand is the world you can't live without.
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I feel completely free to do whatever I want and how I want to do it. I feel unburdened by my past.
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I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.
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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 have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine.
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People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we're the same way.
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I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.
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Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.
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I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.
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Everybody I'm working with now is a friend. And I would be very, very remiss to work with anybody in the future who has not shown me who they really are.
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I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens.
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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 mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.
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You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our own demise.
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A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
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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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I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.
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