Quotes by Jimmy Chamberlin

About Jimmy Chamberlin:

James Joseph "Jimmy" Chamberlin is an American drummer and record producer. He is best known as the drummer for the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. Following the 2000 breakup of the band, Chamberlin joined Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan in the supergroup Zwan and also formed his own group, the Jimmy Chamberlin Complex. In 2005, Chamberlin joined Corgan in reforming The Smashing Pumpkins; he eventually left the group in March 2009, though he would return again in 2015 for a summer tour. He performed in the group Skysaw until 2012. He is currently active / performs under the Jimmy Chamberlin Complex name. In addition to his current work as CEO, Chamberlin has joined Chicago jazz legend Frank Catalano for a string of 2013-15 performances in the Chicago area. An EP by Catalano and Chamberlin Love Supreme Collective - EP was released on the 29th of July 2014.
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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.

Jimmy Chamberlin

I left the Pumpkins in 2010, and I just took a year off to hang with my family and be with my daughter and my son and my wife, and just get acclimatised to being off the road. Then I started looking at what was going to be the next part of my career/...

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.

Jimmy Chamberlin

When I'm at home I practice everyday.

Jimmy Chamberlin

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.

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.

Jimmy Chamberlin

After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found myself writing all these songs, just taking advantage of the relaxed situation. I wrote about 30 songs in about 30 days.

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 int...

Jimmy Chamberlin

I feel really good in the teacher role.

Jimmy Chamberlin

Music is my life. It is sacred.

Jimmy Chamberlin

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.

Jimmy Chamberlin

No one writes about the emotional things you go through.

Jimmy Chamberlin

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

Jimmy Chamberlin

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

Jimmy Chamberlin

I take my craft very seriously.

Jimmy Chamberlin

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

Jimmy Chamberlin

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

Jimmy Chamberlin

At first it was a bit daunting, but once I started to do it, the more I got into it, the more I started enjoying it and being able to say things lyrically that I would normally have to say musically.

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.

Jimmy Chamberlin

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.

Jimmy Chamberlin

Author Bio

  • NameJimmy Chamberlin
  • DescriptionDrummer, songwriter, Producer
  • BornJune 10, 1964
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionComposer; Jazz Musician