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"You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique."

"I have to constantly remind myself that I am communicating with a person with hearing loss."

"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."

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

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

"Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse."

"I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?"
Explore more quotes by 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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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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