30 Quotes by Bill Laswell

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.