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

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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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"The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it."

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

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"Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before."

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"The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'"

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"The site of hearing was now known to be in the cochlea."

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"I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?"

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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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"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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"Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now."
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"When I'm at home I practice everyday."
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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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"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 put the right things out there the right things will happen."
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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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"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."
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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."
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