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 Image
Ambient means the natural center or atmosphere of a space. All music has that in it- a space or center. I think it just means the atmosphere or what defines the environment of sound and maybe removing the more destructive, harsh elements and harder rhythmic elements and you get down to the stillness that's inherent. There's an ambient quality in… — 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 Image
I don't think technology is viable unless the person applying it has something to say. — Bill Laswell Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
