Top 33 Quotes by Jimmy Chamberlin

About Jimmy Chamberlin

These are some quotes by American author Jimmy Chamberlin Musician, who was born on June 10, 1964.

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

Jimmy Chamberlin

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.

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.

Jimmy Chamberlin

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

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

Jimmy Chamberlin

It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even for a second.

It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even for a second.

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.

Jimmy Chamberlin

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.

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.

Jimmy Chamberlin

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

Jimmy Chamberlin

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.

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.

Jimmy Chamberlin

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

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

Jimmy Chamberlin

U2 are a great band; they've given us an unbelievable body of work, and all of us musicians owe them at least something. I can honestly say that every time I have played the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, as soon as my drums are set up, I go into the beat of 'Sunday Bloody Sunday.'

Jimmy Chamberlin

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