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18 quotes by Bill Laswell

Bill Laswell Born (1955-02-12) February 12, 1955 (age 60) Salem, Illinois, U.S. Genres Avant-garde, art rock, ambient, dub, electronica, experimental, punk jazz, industrial hip hop Occupation(s) Musician, producer, arranger Instruments Bass, guitar, keyboard Associated acts Method Of Defiance, The Golden Palominos, Praxis, Massacre, Material, Buckethead, Painkiller, Ashes, Tabla Beat Science, Iggy Pop, Herbie Hancock Bill Laswell (born...
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People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career... →

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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 and it became... →

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Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.

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People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.

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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 tradition... →

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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... →

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Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.

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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... →

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I don't think technology is viable unless the person applying it has something to say.

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I put projects together. I put people together.

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I think if you look at exactly where you are, you can't really focus without looking back and forward at the same time.

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I've never used ethnic music as decoration for profit.

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Sound comes out of a life experience.

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