Jimmy Chamberlin Quotes

• If you put the right things out there the right things will happen.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Happens, Ifs, Right Thing

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• Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Culture, Sophisticated, Music Is

  "Pumpkins Smashing Pumpkins' Chamberlin gives up the road to reinvent live music" by Andy Meek, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2014.

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• I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Drumming, Lyrical

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• The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Song, Play, Trying

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• You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Respect, Thinking, Self

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• I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Thinking, Play, People

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• Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Rocks, Different, Would Be

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• If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Running, Children, Home

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• When I'm at home I practice everyday.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Home, Practice, Everyday

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• My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Love, Success, Brother

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• No one writes about the emotional things you go through.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Writing, Emotional, Emotional Things

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• I feel really good in the teacher role.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Teacher, Roles, Feels

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• I take my craft very seriously.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Crafts

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• My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Brother, Inspiration, Kids

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