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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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Billy Burke
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William Patrick Corgan
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I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.
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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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If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.
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Shave your head, wear a 'ZERO' shirt. Take away your identity. What do you have? You still have yourself.
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The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
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