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 BozzioYou 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 BozzioThere's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.
Terry Bozzio