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Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.

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Terry Bozzio
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: December 27
Composer
Drummer
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San Francisco County
California
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My motives at a young age were, I want to be rich and famous.
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You don't know where you're going.
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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.
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