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I started thinking that if po...

I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

I grew up in the suburbs and ...

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

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

Well, I'm known as a guitar-r...

Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

Most people don't know that w...

Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.

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There's nothing wrong with te...

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

In a weird kind of way, music...

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 don't wanna play this kind ...

I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

Where is this great love for ...

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

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I don't think people are fans...

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

My mother and I parting compa...

My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

A good artist is willing to d...

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

These days you're not just co...

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

Soon you won't even have the ...

Soon you won't even have the choice to live or die as you wish!

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

You could have a zillion Face...

You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hundred to one...Record companies, they don't have any money, so they see social media as the free marketing... So... 'Billy, light yourself on fire and stand upside down, and that'll market the record.'

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I work differently than most ...

I work differently than most people.

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Sometimes people just like be...

Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.

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In my particular instance, I ...

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.

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I just don't want to live in ...

I just don't want to live in the past. I'm really disappointed by so many people of my generation who - in order to promote their new work, they have to constantly lean on their past. I don't want to be that type of artist... I see a lot of people out here doing really marginal music.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

I'm prepared to spend the res...

I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

That's the age that people ar...

That's the age that people are exploited, exploitable, and they're easily manipulated. The problem with me is, you can't manipulate me anymore. I've seen it, I know it, I've been there. And that's partially why, particularly in America, you see issues with artists as they get older. And they like to keep it a young man's game. Because that's how they can fudge around with the rules.

Billy Corgan 340 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....