Bill Laswell on elements
Bill Laswell5 quotes“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.”
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Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it.
Boyd K. PackerBoyd K. Packer 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.
Bill LaswellBill Laswell People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don’t consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
Bill LaswellBill Laswell People are afraid of things they don’t understand.
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The elements of success. And my son’s very successful. He’s doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.
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Ben ParrBen Parr In order to ease my condition I took up Euclid’s Elements and read for the first time his doctrine of ratio, which I found treated there in a manner entirely new to me.
Bernard BolzanoBernard Bolzano I love chaos…. It’s the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.
Ben ShahnBen Shahn The ANC is very concerned (about shedding votes), hence they are pinning their hopes that those rogue elements will run the elections, so rigging will be on the high. There is no doubt about that
Bantu HolomisaBantu Holomisa One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don’t respect you and when they respect you they don’t love you.
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