Quotes from Terry Bozzio

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

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.

I don't have to be a success. I can just try.

I've composed all my life and kept things, and even developed things I've done in college into something now.

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.

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.

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

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.

The best thing is to find something you really love to do and enjoy that process for the rest of your life.

I'd love to do music for films.

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.

My motives at a young age were, "I want to be rich and famous".

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.

Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.

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.