Jimmy Chamberlin Quotes
Even though I'm a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock.
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I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.
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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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I've always had an interest in sports across the board.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.
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In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.
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I think it was in high school when I was listening to Sheryl Crow and Michelle Branch or Avril Lavigne - that time when female pop rock was really having a moment - and it really resonated with me. I started writing poetry, and I was learning how to play guitar at the time, but I didn't really put the two together for a while.
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Actors really are the scum of the earth. Their behavior makes overpaid rock stars look positively noble.
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Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.
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I think there is a danger there of being mean to people and humiliating people and embarrassing people just because it might get you ratings. It is a disturbing trend.
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You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.
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Even though I'm a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock.
