I'm not Stravinsky, I never will be. Terry Bozzio More Quotes by Terry Bozzio More Quotes From Terry Bozzio I'm pretty proud of everything I've done. Terry Bozzio proud done If I practice I'll really alienate people. Terry Bozzio ifs practice people There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history. Terry Bozzio music-business fame People YouTube me and crap and then, they probably don't want to see me after seeing a friendly posted YouTube video, so I'm constantly having to take those down. Terry Bozzio video friendly people 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 low, or I had a bad experience at a place then I usually don't play there again. Terry Bozzio accepting play lows 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 internet awful america 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 to play. Terry Bozzio grateful survival play 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 theaters. You know, to me it's like a church for music. You can sit down and really give yourself to the performance and be comfortable with good surroundings and a clean, quiet atmosphere. Terry Bozzio brother giving thinking Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts. Terry Bozzio men america art In America there are some places that are just gorgeous to play. Terry Bozzio gorgeous play america 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. Terry Bozzio band chicago firsts 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. Terry Bozzio chicago stuff thinking 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 about herself. I would just mute the TV, look over to the computer and start plugging in notes. Then the next morning you go "Wow, I like this". I'd almost forget what I did, and then it would inspire me to go on and do the next thing. That's what I do. Just kind of follow my own little thing. Terry Bozzio morning talking inspire I had been composing just for myself, and people would say I played so orchestrally, and wondered if I thought about having someone write a piece for me for an orchestra. And I thought, I don't want someone else to write that. You know I finally had made an overhead chart of my drums and what pitches the cymbals and toms were tuned to, and what have you. And I started to compose just with what I had for my solo drumming. Terry Bozzio pieces writing people I always liked to make something creative. Terry Bozzio creative All of your experience comes into play when you're composing. Terry Bozzio composing play I don't think I really started to seriously compose until around that time when I was 40. Terry Bozzio thinking 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 I wanted to believe it or not. You know, I was young and naive or in denial. But he really was a special, special human being. Terry Bozzio realization special believe I've composed all my life and kept things, and even developed things I've done in college into something now. Terry Bozzio done college If you enjoy learning, if you enjoy the curiosity of music and what can be done with it, and stop looking at it as something you have to do because someone says this is what you have to do to be a professional, you know, learn it because you're curious about it and then I think you'll have a much better creative sense and enable this inner voice to come out. These things are not taught and are not encouraged. Terry Bozzio voice creative thinking
