30 Quotes by Bill Laswell

Obviously, it's had a huge effect on repetitive music or dance music or house music. Ambient in the last ten years has infiltrated into all those repetitive musics. I don't know what part it plays in pop necessarily but I'm sure there's some connection. But 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. I think it's infiltrated that pretty heavily.

People are afraid of things they don't understand.

The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.

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.

People are afraid of things they don’t understand.

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.

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 yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.

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

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