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Bill Laswell

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