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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."

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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."

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"And so they pitched the show to me. It sounded like a good idea. We pitched the show back, and got it sold and got it on the air. And that's kicking the tail."

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"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

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"Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past."

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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same."
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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."
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"The atmosphere defines the environment of sound."
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"Sound comes out of a life experience."
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