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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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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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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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All of your experience comes into play when you're composing.
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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 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've composed all my life and kept things, and even developed things I've done in college into something now.
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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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It's very difficult to make a living in music these days. All it takes is somebody paying.
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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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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'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'm pretty proud of everything I've done.
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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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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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In America there are some places that are just gorgeous to play.
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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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There's many possibilities for anything.
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In the liner notes, music is fine by itself. It doesn't need any explanation.
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