Billy Corgan Quotes

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Billy Corgan

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 17, 1967

I don't want to be 25 again.

Billy Corgan

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

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Music is your guide.

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I'm a bit weird.

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I'm a green-tea guy.

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I mean, I'm certainly not a 'teaophyte,' or whatever the word would be.

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I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.

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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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I like my home and I like the nature.

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I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

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Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.

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I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.

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Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?

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Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

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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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All I can go on is my own value system.

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In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

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I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

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I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

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I'm a really honest person.

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