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
noise way loud
We surrounded ourselves with smoke and loud noise. That's the way we chose to live. I'm prepared to defend it.
night looks ifs
Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look.
destiny names mail
If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail.
technology lust
Technology is lust removed from nature.
novelists gains terrorist
What terrorists gain, novelists lose.
plot murder knows
Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.
technology men blood
Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.
independent intelligent reality
We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one language we might conceivably have in common with other forms of intelligent life in the universe. As I understand it, there is no reality more independent of our perception and more true to itself than mathematical reality.
editing self voice
In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
fluid force dank
Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.
taken thinking years
There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.
barns impossible white-noise
Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
independent influence standing-out
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
meaning-of-life doe modern
The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?