Bill Laswell Quotes

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.

I'll listen to pretty much anything good, but I probably listen to more "electronic" music than anything else.

I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.

I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

I love some electronic music. I'm not a big fan of dubstep, but there is so much good electronic music out there.

I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.

I just love a slow groove. I feel so comfortable in it. But I listen to a lot of fast music, a lot of techno and house.

I'm really into, like, electric pop music and dubstep, things like that.

You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.

The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.

I play a lot of hard, uncompromising dance music; it can be anything from dance to rock to reggae.

I don't want to make an album which is full of brutal and jarring techno.

I used to go and see bands like the Orb and Orbital every time they came down, and I've seen Aphex Twin a couple of times. I was really into all that stuff, but it didn't speak to me.

I first was introduced to really, I guess, underground electronic music when I was in middle school.

I'm more akin to things like Sigur Ros, Mogwai, possibly. But when I'm making solo electronic music, techno stuff is just the most exciting form of rhythm.

Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone, and it's not moving one inch.

Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.

I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.

Holland was one of the first countries to adopt dance music into their culture, and we were the first ones to have really big raves. I grew up in that atmosphere in the early 1990s, and I was very interested in how dance music was made.

When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.

Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance the night away to electronic music.

I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.

Holland is a really small country, but with a very strong club and festival scene. Dance music has been huge in Holland since the late eighties. So there were a lot of opportunities for producers and DJs to release records and play live.