You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.

- 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 …

- Jimmy Chamberlin

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

- 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 to…

- Jimmy Chamberlin

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

- Jimmy Chamberlin

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

- Jimmy Chamberlin

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

- 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

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 fo…

- Jimmy Chamberlin