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,…

- Bill Laswell

Ambient means the natural center or atmosphere of a space. All music has that in it- a space or center. I think it just means the atmosphere or what …

- Bill Laswell

People are afraid of things they don't understand.

- Bill Laswell

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

- Bill Laswell

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 your…

- Bill Laswell

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 atmosphe…

- 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…

- Bill Laswell

Sound comes out of a life experience.

- Bill Laswell

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