Bill Laswell Quotes

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• Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.
• 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…
• 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 find…
• Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them…
• Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a…
• The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.
• People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
• Sound comes out of a life experience.
• 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.
• Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
• People are afraid of things they don't understand.
• People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
• I got into dub a long time ago. I was into dub before I even had any interest in reggae or Jamaican songs, Bob Marley,…
• I put projects together. I put people together.

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