Don Was
Don Was
Don Wasis an American musician, record producer and record executive. Primarily a bass player, Was led the 1980s funk rock band Was. In later years he produced songs and albums for a large number of popular recording artists. In 2012, he became president of jazz music label Blue Note Records...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth13 September 1952
CountryUnited States of America
life private success
I am stable when my private life is a success.
breathe enjoy mixed particular
I enjoy mixed audiences, not one particular group. Short, tall, scientists, Jews, gentiles, whatever, as long as they breathe and like to laugh.
father
I was 28 when my father died, and I was an only child.
funny
If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.
call
I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
comics compared material
Compared to what some of the young comics use for material today, I'm a priest.
wants
I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage.
although audiences
When you do comedy, you can't please the world, although I'd like to think that most of my audiences were on my side.
absolute assumption becomes believe structure throughout truth
In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth.
thousands
For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.
cried time took war
I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried.
days maintain saloon trying
I mean, in my - and I'm not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little - I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know.
spite
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
fate hands happiness himself material miserable prosperity puts
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.