Quotes by Bill Laswell - Page 1

Sound comes out of a life experience.
Bill Laswell / Bassist
Experience
Life Experience
Sound
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I put projects together. I put people together.
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People
Projects
Together
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The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.
Bill Laswell / Bassist
Atmosphere
Environment
Sound
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People are afraid of things they don't understand.
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I've never used ethnic music as decoration for profit.
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Decoration
Profit
Ethnic
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I don't think technology is viable unless the person applying it has something to say.
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Technology
Applying
Unless
Viable
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Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.
Bill Laswell / Bassist
Music
Computers
Computer
Electronic Music
Opposites
Warm
Opposite
Same
Electronic
Human
Exactly
Exactly The Same
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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.
Bill Laswell / Bassist
Focus
Looking Back
Exactly
Forward
Same Time
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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.
Bill Laswell / Bassist
Music
Achievement
Done
Moments
People
Playing Music
Receipts
Records
Time Work Music
Time Work Done
Work Time Music
Goes
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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.
Bill Laswell / Bassist
Conventional
People
Play
Threatened
Valuable
Music People Who
Electronica
Music People Play
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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 / Bassist
Elements
Sound
Texture
Dealing
Pretend
Textures
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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.
Bill Laswell / Bassist
Careers
Existence
People
Relate
Security
Things
Understand
Afraid
People Know Understand
Career
How
Image
Threatens
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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.
Bill Laswell / Bassist
Music
Quality
Ambience
Atmosphere
Deals
House
Repetition
Been
Drum
Experimental
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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.
Bill Laswell / Bassist
Cold
Description
Engineering
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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.
Bill Laswell / Bassist
Guy
Ideas
Style
Trendy
Became
Copied
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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 / Bassist
Ambient
Finished
Hours
Listening
Long
Moving
Records
Too Much
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I got into dub a long time ago. I was into dub before I even had any interest in reggae or Jamaican songs, Bob Marley, or any of those established artists. I just thought it was such an unusual sound.
Bill Laswell / Bassist
Long Time Ago
Marley
Reggae
Unusual
Time Long Long Time
Established
Dub
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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.
Bill Laswell / Bassist
Jazz
Miles
Sides
Tradition
Davis
Criticized
Embraced
Fully
Possibilities
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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 / Bassist
Composition
Generic
Noise
Song
Music I Am People
Unknown
Less
Cliches
Experimental
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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.
Bill Laswell / Bassist
Quality
Play
Thinking
Years
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Ambient means the natural center or atmosphere of a space. All music has that in it- a space or center. I think it just means the atmosphere or what defines the environment of sound and maybe removing the more destructive, harsh elements and harder rhythmic elements and you get down to the stillness that's inherent. There's an ambient quality in every sound. You may have to enhance that to hear it or bring it out in a different way but there is that in every environmental sound.
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Quality
Space
Mean
Thinking
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