Quotes by Jimmy Chamberlin - Page 1

I take my craft very seriously.
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Seriously Take Very
Craft
Seriously
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Music is my life. It is sacred.
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Music Is My Life
Sacred
Life Music My Life
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When I'm at home I practice everyday.
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Home
Everyday
Practice
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I feel really good in the teacher role.
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Teacher
Feels
Roles
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Legacy above finances; artistry above fame.
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Artistry
Legacy
Finances
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I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Drumming
Lyrical
Anyway
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No one writes about the emotional things you go through.
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Emotional
Emotional Things
Writing
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If you put the right things out there the right things will happen.
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Happens
Ifs
Right Thing
Right Things
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Even though I'm a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock.
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Drummer
Teeth
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Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Culture
Music Is
Sophisticated
Music Always Culture
Consumes
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I can't take days off and play like I did last night. Maybe some people can, but I can't.
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Last Night
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Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.
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Different
Drumming
Rocks
Would Be
Joined
Rock Band
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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 / Drummer
Play
Song
Trying
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It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even for a second.
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Granted
Honour
Play Music
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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 / Drummer
Respect
Deeper
Looks
Self
Self Respect
Thinking
Builds
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I've learned that you can call it a band, but unless everyone is contributing, it's not, really. It's pretending that it's a band.
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Contributing
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I want to be 'Jimmy Chamberlin, the drummer, the musician who's done many things,' not just 'that guy from the Smashing Pumpkins.'
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Drummer
Jimmy
Musician
Smashing
Done Things Want
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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 / Drummer
Approach
Band
People
Play
Thinking
Music People Way
Based
Hear
Hear Music
Jazzy
Role
Supporting
Supporting Role
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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 / Drummer
Running
Home
Cash
Children
Home Run
Monk
Twelve
Home Me More
Pile
Year-Old
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But back then the thing that saved me was the music, and it's certainly the music that saves me now. The music, my family and my friends and everybody around me.
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Saved
Family Music Me
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All he wants to do is practice and that's all he does, all day long. That's what it takes if you want to change the face of music. You've gotta be committed to it.
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Committed
Practice
All Day
Gotta
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People just expect you to show up, be a cartoon character of yourself, take your money and go home. But don't screw up to the point where you're gonna be out of the picture.
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Cartoon
Cartoon Character
Picture
Expect
Go Home
Screw
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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 / Drummer
Kids
Band
Brother
Inspiration
Big Band
In Fact
Record
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Today's consumer is less interested in possessing things and more in experiencing them. That's something the music industry needs to get its head around. Do we even need record companies any more?
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Music Industry
Possessing
Record Companies
Consumer
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The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got boring really quick and that wasn't what we were about on an organic level.
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Environment
Fusion
Organic
Quick
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At first it was a bit daunting, but once I started to do it, the more I got into it, the more I started enjoying it and being able to say things lyrically that I would normally have to say musically.
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Daunting
Enjoying
Lyrically
Musically
Normally
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I always wanted to be in this role, as a songwriter. In the Pumpkins, it was always impossible because Corgan would wake up and write five songs. He was so prolific, there wasn't a lot of room for anyone else.
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Wake Up
Anyone Else
Prolific
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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 / Drummer
Love
Success
Bitterness
Brother
Love Hate
Love Hate Relationship
Recently
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After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found myself writing all these songs, just taking advantage of the relaxed situation. I wrote about 30 songs in about 30 days.
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Advantage
Relaxed
Taking Advantage
Basement
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Part of the reason that I left the Pumpkins is because it was becoming all-consuming. Being the only member of that band who had two kids and a wife, it was a hard decision, but ultimately it was a decision I'm comfortable with.
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Member
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What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff.
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Jazz
Complex
Festival
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I left the Pumpkins in 2010, and I just took a year off to hang with my family and be with my daughter and my son and my wife, and just get acclimatised to being off the road. Then I started looking at what was going to be the next part of my career/legacy, whatever you want to call it.
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Hang
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U2 are a great band; they've given us an unbelievable body of work, and all of us musicians owe them at least something. I can honestly say that every time I have played the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, as soon as my drums are set up, I go into the beat of 'Sunday Bloody Sunday.'
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Band
Bloody
Colorado
Given
Honestly
Red
Rocks
Sunday
Unbelievable
Time Work Great
Played
Beat
Drums
Set
Every Time
Work Time Great
Owe
Least
Musicians
Soon
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