Jimmy Chamberlin quotes

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)

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

Jimmy Chamberlin

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

Jimmy Chamberlin

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

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

When I'm at home I practice everyday.

Jimmy Chamberlin

No one writes about the emotional things you go through.

Jimmy Chamberlin

I feel really good in the teacher role.

Jimmy Chamberlin

I take my craft very seriously.

Jimmy Chamberlin

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

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)

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

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

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

Jimmy Chamberlin

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

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

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

Jimmy Chamberlin

Even though I'm a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock.

Jimmy Chamberlin