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

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 pl…

- Terry Bozzio

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 …

- Terry Bozzio

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

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,…

- Terry Bozzio

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 program…

- Terry Bozzio

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 …

- Terry Bozzio

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 a…

- Terry Bozzio

I just want to make music on the drums.

- Terry Bozzio