Terry Bozzio

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

— 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…

— Terry Bozzio

I have tons of tunes, maybe 30 tunes that I still think are great, and only because some jerk at a record…

— 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…

— 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…

— Terry Bozzio

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Terry Bozzio

There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— Terry Bozzio

In America there are some places that are just gorgeous to play.

— Terry Bozzio

You have to study composition to understand that things can be done backwards and forwards and upside down, inverted, but it's mainly…

— Terry Bozzio

I always liked to make something creative.

— Terry Bozzio

I have great samples of my drums and I try to program them pretty much how I want to play them, try…

— Terry Bozzio

If it's something that I just can't get anywhere with, even if I think this could be a hit, I just drop…

— Terry Bozzio

The way we teach is a very linear kind of way.

— Terry Bozzio

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.

— Terry Bozzio

Being a professional does not have a very high standard.

— Terry Bozzio

I really think kids should understand that music is like learning the alphabet. You put small letters together to make words, and…

— Terry Bozzio