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"If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it."
"I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements."
"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."
"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."
"You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique."
"I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"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."
"You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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