Bill Laswell Quotes

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

Everyone making electronic music has the same tool kits and templates. You listen, and you feel like it can be done on an iPad. If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.

Guitars, there was rock 'n' roll. Saxophone, jazz. Now we have the computer and there's this electronic thing happening in music that is somewhat superhuman.

And EDM music grabbed my ear and got my attention and I started realizing that the computer was, in the same way that the saxophone was invented in the late 1800s and guitar in the 1930s, an instrument.

You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.

Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.

The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

There's a confusion sometimes with the laptop being the current tools and where electronic music initially comes from.

I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.

When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy.

People have taken technology so far, to the point where music is almost sterile these days.

Technology has changed the way we think about music.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers.