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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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"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"

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"He looked at the silver pocketknife in his hand. An idea came to him " possibly the stupidest, craziest idea he'd had since he thought, Hey, I'll get Percy to swim in the River Styx! He'll love me for that!"

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"They're trying to beat out this movie, the Ring, which is a similar idea. Our movie is about a website you visit and die in three days. Their movie is about a videotape you watch - and die in three days."

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"If somebody came up with a really good idea, everyone would back it. Especially when we did the show, we had a real dedication that, if you were in somebody else's scene, everyone worked their hardest to make that scene good."

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"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"

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"A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents."

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"A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside."

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"The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius."

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"The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road."

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"A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on."

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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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"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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"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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"People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do."
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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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"Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same."
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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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"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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"The atmosphere defines the environment of sound."
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