Terry Bozzio Quotes

You just write one word and that tells you what the next word is going to be.

I try to put what's evocative in the music to me, I try and put that out there in terms of titles and imagery, or implication towards the listener.

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.

Being a professional does not have a very high standard.

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.

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.

I think my music is great for film, but I don't have the opportunity, or goesche to go and pitch myself to Hollywood.

You don't know where you're going.

You just chip away until the puzzle is complete.

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.

Of course the headspace for the young musician is whatever the guy who is paying you says, is right, but that's all.

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.

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