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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
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William Patrick Corgan
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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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This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.
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If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.
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Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.
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For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right.
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I was part of a generation that changed the world - and it was taken over by poseurs.
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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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Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.
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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 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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If the next record is no better than Gish, then we've failed.
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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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I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.
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Every year that goes by, I lose that much more motivation to play rock.
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The weird nihilism that permeates Mellon Collie is extremely relevant to what's going on right now. So many kids are intelligent and articulate, but they don't know what to do with themselves.
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What has gone on in my childhood, and the personal problems that we've had in the band, have given a lot of people hope. (It shows) if you keep your nose pointed straight you can actually get somewhere -- to a happy place.
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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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We're the worst band in America... That makes us the best.
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Once a pumpkin, Always a pumpkin.
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James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.
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