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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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If I practice I'll really alienate people.
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I'm not a haiku artist, but I wanted to use the phrase 5, 7, 5 in the melody that flows over time. So the string melody, the first one is five notes, the next one is seven, and then the third one is five.
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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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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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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.
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There's many possibilities for anything.
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You just chip away until the puzzle is complete.
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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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I think my music is great for film, but I don't have the opportunity, or goesche to go and pitch myself to Hollywood.
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I married my Japanese wife Mayumi who I'm so happy with, she's been so supportive. I live part time in Japan at her house, so I've been always very influenced by Japan. Since I guess the 70's or so. I've come to appreciate so much of their culture.
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I don't have to be a success. I can just try.
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You don't know where you're going.
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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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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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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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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 the liner notes, music is fine by itself. It doesn't need any explanation.
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I always liked to make something creative.
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In America there are some places that are just gorgeous to play.
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Japan and Europe seem to have a little more cultural education and so the crowds have been a little more big and enthusiastic, and the places I've played seem a little more classy.
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