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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My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway.
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The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.
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I had a jazz trio, a rock n' roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college, big bands, and I played timpani in the symphony. I am a drummer. It's the one instrument I actually play pretty well. It's just hard to carry on your back.
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I like when a man has a positive self-image, no matter what he looks like. I'm not into rock-hard abs.
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I work with the dead, but I am working for the living.
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Even though I'm a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock.
