30 Quotes by Bill Laswell
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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, image.
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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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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 trendy and then it became a style.
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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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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.
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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, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.
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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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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.
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