Bill Laswell Quotes

My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.

I think there's something strangely musical about noise.

The key concept is to open your ears. Music can be here and there, anywhere surrounding you.

We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.

The noonday quiet holds the hill.

whenever possible I avoid talking. Reprieve from talking is my idea of a holiday. At risk of seeming unsociable, which I am, I admit I love to be left in a beatific trance, when I am in one. Friendly Romans recognize that wish.

How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!

We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.

Go where there is silence and say something.

Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.

We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone; at times it is positively to be wished for.....In the silence we listen to ourselves. Then we ask questions of ourselves. We describe ourselves to ourselves, and in the quietude we may even hear the voice of God.

The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.

I can hear the music all around me.

Peace and quiet govern the world.

I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.

If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.

No benefit is more constant than simplicity; no happiness more constant than peace.

Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum.

Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace.

For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.

50 Words of Snow just didn't seem to have the complications that quite a lot of albums have. It felt to me like it had this very good flow of energy.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

In the distance, he could see Molly lying in the tall grass off to the side of the house.