"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."

Music, People, Play

29

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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."

Exlpore more Music quotes

"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."

Alex North, American Composer

Music,

"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."

Lee Ann Womack, American Musician

Music, May

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Music, Truth, Memory, Happiness

"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."

Rick Derringer, American Musician

Music, Thought

"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."

Alanis Morissette, Canadian Musician

Music,

"I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised."

Sting, British Musician

Music, Language, Needs

"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."

Joseph Jarman, American Musician

Music,

"Listening is the key to everything good in music."

Pat Metheny, American Musician

Music, Key, Listening

"Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body."

Klaus Schulze, German Composer

Music, Dance, Being, Body

"A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit."

Martha Reeves, American Musician

Music, Song

Explore more quotes by Jimmy Chamberlin

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

Right

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

Now

"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."

Environment

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

People

"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."

Money

"When I'm at home I practice everyday."

Home

"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."

Brother

"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."

Change

"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."

Hearing

"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."

Family