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Billy Corgan

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About Billy Corgan

William Patrick Corgan Jr. is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and professional wrestling promoter. He is best known as the co-founder, lead guitarist, primary songwriter, singer, and only constant member of alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. Corgan is credited with helping popularize the alternative rock genre. Considered as one of the finest and most underrated rock guitarists of the 1990s, Rolling Stone called him and his Smashing Pumpkins bandmates "ruthless virtuosos". He…

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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.
I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.
Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.
I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and s…

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The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.
A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.
If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
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.
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.
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 sto…
I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.
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 …
Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never r…