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It's very difficult to make a living in music these days. All it takes is somebody paying.

Terry Bozzio

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Terry Bozzio
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: December 27
Composer
Drummer
Guitarist
Musician
Percussionist
Singer
Studio Musician
San Francisco County
California
Terry John Bozzio
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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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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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All of your experience comes into play when you're composing.
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My motives at a young age were, I want to be rich and famous.
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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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I don't have to be a success. I can just try.
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I feel qualified and competent to try anything that's thrown my way because I don't have to be a success. I can just try.
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I don't think I really started to seriously compose until around that time when I was 40.
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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.
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From the time I started playing solo drums, doing clinics and stuff, you know I think one of the largest selling clinics I ever did was in Chicago.
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The first time I ever went to Chicago was with Zappa and I had a fantastic experiences with him and every other band I've played with. It's a great music town.
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You just write one word and that tells you what the next word is going to be.
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The way we teach is a very linear kind of way.
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I'm pretty proud of everything I've done.
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There are things I've kept over the years and then someday I might pull up a program of some tune that I've done and I go Wow, I know what to do with this now.
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In America there are some places that are just gorgeous to play.
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If I practice I'll really alienate people.
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