In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience. — Bill Laswell Copy Share Image
Obviously, it's had a huge effect on repetitive music or dance music or house music. Ambient in the last ten years has infiltrated into all those repetitive musics. I don't know what part it plays in pop necessarily but I'm… — Bill Laswell Copy Share Image
Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of… — Bill Laswell Copy Share
Ambient means the natural center or atmosphere of a space. All music has that in it- a space or center. I think it just… — Bill Laswell Copy Share
Engineering producers who don't play and have technology as a background may be the reason why there's a lot of cold non-musical music, for… — Bill Laswell Copy Share
I don't think technology is viable unless the person applying it has something to say. — Bill Laswell Copy Share
I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches. It's no… — Bill Laswell Copy Share
I think if you look at exactly where you are, you can't really focus without looking back and forward at the same time. — Bill Laswell Copy Share
What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds. — Bill Laswell Copy Share
Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of… — Bill Laswell Copy Share
In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of… — Bill Laswell Copy Share
People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do. — Bill Laswell Copy Share
If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might… — Bill Laswell Copy Share
