Jimmy Chamberlin Quotes

Composing is an emotional thing.

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

We don't have a particular plan. We just do what we do. This is the only way we know how to do it. We make the music that moves us. We use it as therapy. The songs are cathartic. They're ways of dealing with life experiences and the world around you. It's meant to be as a release for us as it is for other people.

Most things I go through I have to write about.

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to express until a sentence comes to my head that will sum up everything about how I'm feeling at the time.

I made a decision when I started writing 'All is Song' to take the compliments I had for 'The Wilderness' and try to be confident and not overwhelmed by it.

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.

I would say that I don't look for musical things.

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound.

I just feel very lucky to be able to write fiction because I think, otherwise, I would have had to spend a fortune on a psychiatrist - and I still wouldn't get 1/100th of what I get writing fiction.

Every movie you do, you find something in yourself that you probably didn't know that you had, and a director will find something in you that you can nurture and find and bring for the next one.

Any characters that make me think, 'I don't know if I can do this,' are the ones I most want to do. I don't want to do the same thing over and over.

Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.

The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it.

You know the way you tell your life story to a friend? I just told mine to a piano.

When you're making music, you're creeping up on your heart and pouring it out into something.