Top 18 Quotes by Bill Laswell

About Bill Laswell

These are some quotes by American author Bill Laswell Musician, who was born on February 12, 1955.

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

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.

Bill Laswell

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.

The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.

Bill Laswell

I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches. It's no less than I am experimenting with noise or unknown music - until you say, 'This is my song, or this is my composition' - it's all experimental, whether you like it or not.

Bill Laswell

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.

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.

Bill Laswell

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