You try to improvise in a compositional manner. You don't just do some stupid lick you've been practicing, scale form exercises or something. Terry Bozzio More Quotes by Terry Bozzio More Quotes From Terry Bozzio The best thing is to find something you really love to do and enjoy that process for the rest of your life. Terry Bozzio rest-of-your-life enjoy process I have great samples of my drums and I try to program them pretty much how I want to play them, try and make it feel natural even though it's programmed. Terry Bozzio want play trying 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. Terry Bozzio next flow artist I really think kids should understand that music is like learning the alphabet. You put small letters together to make words, and then you use these words to create a story, but with music. And they really need to know how to mix and match those letters and how to come up with something that is really interesting, or speak in metaphors as poets do to show us something maybe we didn't think about. Terry Bozzio kids interesting thinking I just want to make music on the drums. Terry Bozzio want Money and fame are very inconvenient and very problematic. Terry Bozzio money-and-fame inconvenient fame 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. Terry Bozzio crowds japan europe I'm not going to limit myself in ways to compose or how I should record. You just do what you can with what you've got at the moment. Terry Bozzio records limits way You just chip away until the puzzle is complete. Terry Bozzio chips puzzles 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 i-can care long You don't know where you're going. Terry Bozzio knows I do the same thing every night, but different. Terry Bozzio every-night different night There's things I'd like to do, but I've found that pretty much anything that I try to will to happen doesn't happen, but if you just kind of let go and let things fall into place, somehow I end up being able to do the right thing or the right time. Terry Bozzio letting-go trying fall You have to study composition to understand that things can be done backwards and forwards and upside down, inverted, but it's mainly just an inner valid intuitive thing. Where do you want to go? Ok this is busy, or this needs some space, or this is too much space so now I want to put more notes in there or something. It's all about contrast. High, low. Fast, slow, thick or thin or what have you. And it's the same with improvisation. Terry Bozzio too-much space want You stick your nose in the dirt until you find something that smells good. Terry Bozzio dirt smell noses I'm not Stravinsky, I never will be. Terry Bozzio stravinsky You just write one word and that tells you what the next word is going to be. Terry Bozzio one-word next writing 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. Terry Bozzio degrees discipline college I'm happy doing what I do. That's ok. Some guy could appear tomorrow and do it much better than me, and so be it, but right now I'm just happy to be who I am doing what I do. Terry Bozzio guy who-i-am tomorrow 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 think it was great, it's not out there. Terry Bozzio records tunes thinking
