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I want to be 'Jimmy Chamberlin, the drummer, the musician who's done many things,' not just 'that guy from the Smashing Pumpkins.'
I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic.
They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.
I love my family more than life itself, but I can only sit at home by my pool eating barbecue food so many days before I go cuckoo.
Is it unprecedented for two goalkeepers employed in a match comprising seven goals to be the fixture's most competent protagonists?
In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.
That was one thing I wanted to win because, my mom, she didn't really know much else in music, but the Grammys were special to her.
I did Nancy Sinatra in Vegas a number of times, and then the Sinatra family, when we did Frankie and the Muppets. Big show in Vegas.
To me, a great drummer isn't always about somebody with chops who can shred. A great drummer is someone who is part of a great band.
As far as I know, you only live once. So, I want to make the most of it while I can and work with as many different people as I can.
You can't live off of just greasy fatty foods and stayin' up till six in the mornin' just partyin'. You gotta take care of yourself.
I wanted to be as far away from everybody as I could be. I found it difficult to be close to anybody, not just the guys in the band.
I didn't play after the Grateful Dead stopped playing. I didn't touch anything for three or four months, and I just got pretty crazy.
Some of my heroes are John Bonham, Keith Moon, Neil Peart, Ringo Starr, Terry Bozzio, Bill Bruford... The list goes on and on and on.
I'm not going to limit myself in ways to compose or how I should record. You just do what you can with what you've got at the moment.
Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that's where I'm at.
If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.
I formed a band called Atomic Rooster. The Atomic Rooster was sort of an underground cult band, sort of psychedelic. We did very well.
I really enjoyed playing that Blind stuff because it's a little more mathy and metal and as far as drumming goes, it's a bit more fun.
I'm very proud of the album I made with Adrenaline Mob, and I think that there was really a great chemistry there; it was a great band.
Normally, when I write the setlist for a Dream Theater show, I'll change it up every night, and we can basically play whatever we want.
Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.
I mean, there is a certain element that, when you read the bad press about yourself and post it on the web-site, takes the pressure off.
Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
If it's something that I just can't get anywhere with, even if I think this could be a hit, I just drop it and it doesn't get developed.
I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music.
Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We're Gonna Make You a Star.
Stretching your parameters is a necessity if you wan to keep growing, and sometimes the best way to do that is to dive into the deep end.
I am not a technical drummer at all. I'm more from the Keith Moon/Lars Ulrich school of, 'Hey, look at me!' I just get up there and bash.
I can't possibly overstate how much influence Rush had on me as a young teenager. I would say from about 1981 to 1987, they were my gods.
Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
So, to come In with a set routine it's something I've never believed in. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.
The place that I found where European musicians and American musicians come together is that odd middle world which is called uncertainty.
My basic political posture is "what a shame the human race did this to earth." What we have done environmentally, politically, culturally.
I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
But the irony is that because the band isn't the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def Leppard much more.
We have a society that wants somebody to come out of college with a degree that will make them a slave for whatever discipline they're in.
In America we're in this awful situation, and you know, I hardly get any royalties anymore because music is just stolen from the internet.
The most important thing about drinking on the road is just you've gotta do it in moderation, first of all. You've gotta know your limits.
Of course, you have to have a good reputation, especially as an artist, as a musician, so that other musicians would like to play with you.
If there wasn't The Beach Boys and there wasn't music, I wouldn't even talk to them. But through the music I fell in love with my brothers.
I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.
I want the 'Roots' biopic to be animated - I see Charles Schulz drawing us. I think it would be more hilarious with the voices of children.
Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums.
We're striving to stay in the arenas. We [Papa Roach] had just little things that just took our show a step up and were so stoked for that.
It doesn't matter if you load it on a DVD, if you videotape it, it doesn't matter. There's nothing more exciting than being at a live show.
I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.
You learn so much about music from all the people you surround yourself with - good, bad and indifferent. It's extremely hard to be specific.