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In the liner notes, music is fine by itself. It doesn't need any explanation.

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Terry Bozzio
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: December 27
Composer
Drummer
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Studio Musician
San Francisco County
California
Terry John Bozzio
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Of course the headspace for the young musician is whatever the guy who is paying you says, is right, but that's all.
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I have tons of tunes, maybe 30 tunes that I still think are great, and only because some jerk at a record company didn't think it was great, it's not out there.
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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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The best thing is to find something you really love to do and enjoy that process for the rest of your life.
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I've composed all my life and kept things, and even developed things I've done in college into something now.
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You don't know where you're going.
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I always liked to make something creative.
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Where does Terry live? Somewhere deep inside. So I just let that come out and try to make something out of it without worrying about techniques or rules or any of that stuff. Just do it, you know. As long as it doesn't burn or get deleted, you know, then somebody will find it someday and I will have left something that I think is beautiful.
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There's many possibilities for anything.
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It's very difficult to make a living in music these days. All it takes is somebody paying.
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