Author: Bill Laswell

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

- Bill Laswell

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

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

- Bill Laswell

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

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

- Bill Laswell

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

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

- Bill Laswell

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 lack of a better description.

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 lack of a better description.

- Bill Laswell

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

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

- Bill Laswell

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.

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

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