Bill Laswell Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.

Lars Von Trier

#3. To manifest the beauty of life, think beauty, dream beauty, and see the beauty in the simple things all around you.

Debasish Mridha

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

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#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. I don't think technology is viable unless the person applying it has something to say.

Bill Laswell

#8. 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

#9. I put projects together. I put people together.

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#10. I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.

Dave Eggers

#11. I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.

Iris Apfel

#12. 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.

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#13. It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture said to the artist: Whoever saw angels with sandals? Angelo answered with another question: Whoever saw an angel barefooted?

Robert Green Ingersoll

#14. 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

#15. But still there are moments when a brother and sister can lay down their instruments of torture for a moment and speak as civilized human beings and Bruno decided to make this one of those moments.

John Boyne

#16. 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.

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#17. We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that we're innately capable of.

Sharon Salzberg

#18. Sound comes out of a life experience.

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#19. 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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#20. I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may take the edge off the first inclusive reaction.

Ansel Adams

#21. 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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#22. If they attack, we shall fight to the end. If the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart of the United States, including New York, in our defense against aggression. But we haven't got them, so we shall fight with what we've got.

Che Guevara

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

Bill Laswell

#24. The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.

Bill Laswell

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

Bill Laswell

#26. I've never used ethnic music as decoration for profit.

Bill Laswell