American - Musician | February 12, 1955 -
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
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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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I put projects together. I put people together.
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I've never used ethnic music as decoration for profit.
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I don't think technology is viable unless the person applying it has something to say.
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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.
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