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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."

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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."

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"We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them."

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"So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience."

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"There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them."

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"I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice."

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"I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements."

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"I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's."

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"Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing."

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Amber Hurdle

"I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing."

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Amber Hurdle

"If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are."

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Amber Hurdle

"Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them."

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