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Jimmy Chamberlin

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

Music is my life. It is sacred.

— Jimmy Chamberlin life

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 art

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 home

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

— Jimmy Chamberlin right

I feel really good in the teacher role.

— Jimmy Chamberlin good

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

— 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 writing

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 change

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 music

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

— Jimmy Chamberlin rain

I can't take days off and play like I did last night. Maybe some people can, but I can't.

— Jimmy Chamberlin people

I take my craft very seriously.

— Jimmy Chamberlin

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 music

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 you

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

— Jimmy Chamberlin you

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 music

Legacy above finances; artistry above fame.

— Jimmy Chamberlin art

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

— Jimmy Chamberlin culture

No one writes about the emotional things you go through.

— Jimmy Chamberlin emotion

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

When I'm at home I practice everyday.

— Jimmy Chamberlin home

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 art

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 music

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.

— Jimmy Chamberlin writer

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didnt understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.

— Jimmy Chamberlin love

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