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I don't have to be a success. I can just try.

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
Success
Trying

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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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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 way we teach is a very linear kind of way.
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My motives at a young age were, I want to be rich and famous.
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I don't know where I'm going, and I don't care where I'm going. As long as I can just do it.
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I don't think I can play the game and sell myself.
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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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You don't know where you're going.
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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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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 there are some places that are just gorgeous to play.
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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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There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.
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You just chip away until the puzzle is complete.
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All of your experience comes into play when you're composing.
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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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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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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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If I practice I'll really alienate people.
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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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