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.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 atmosphere and ambience.
Bill Laswell
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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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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Sound comes out of a life experience.
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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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