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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. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#good #guitar #guitar player #guitar playing #high

We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money. ↗

— Ville Valo

#aware #bands #booze #early #early age

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. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#asking #concept #guard #like #live

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#becomes #deeper #discovering #get #good

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#business #desire #dominating #hit #home

You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#great #great relationship #ready #relationship #you

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#get #haven #level #long #long time

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#based #rock #rock and roll #roll #well

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. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#american #ashes #awakening #cycle #death

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#basic #cats #culture #god #i