There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the…

If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small…

— Terry Bozzio

I'm very grateful to be where I'm at and be able to play. That's really the bottom line for me. Survival and being able…

— Terry Bozzio

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…

— Terry Bozzio

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.

— Terry Bozzio

I try to put what's evocative in the music to me, I try and put that out there in terms of titles and imagery,…

— Terry Bozzio

I had been composing just for myself, and people would say I played so orchestrally, and wondered if I thought about having someone write…

— Terry Bozzio

Half the stuff I've written was written when I was half asleep watching the David Letterman show when some boring actress was on talking…

— Terry Bozzio

I'm not Stravinsky, I never will be.

— Terry Bozzio

I don't really have that much control over where I play. I put out parameters and I accept what I can. If it's really…

— Terry Bozzio

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.

— Terry Bozzio

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

— Terry Bozzio

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…

— Terry Bozzio

I don't think I really started to seriously compose until around that time when I was 40.

— Terry Bozzio

You just chip away until the puzzle is complete.

— Terry Bozzio

Some great experiences I've had and little by little I've come to the realization that everything Frank Zappa told me was the truth, whether…

— Terry Bozzio