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
fascination fame secrecy
Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
ruins scales persistent
Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.
homesick
It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.
white-noise primitive greater
The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
technology thinking people
We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going to die, but they would never say that movies will die with it, when in fact all forms depend on the narrative. I think if one of them fails, the others are going to fail as well. Maybe this will happen to both forms, and maybe movies will take a totally different direction with fiction.
counter-culture kind middle
I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.
week minutes
Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.
found
The more things I threw away, the more I found.
enjoy stills
Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.
fiction stories world
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
japan quality phrases
There's something nearly mystical about certain words and phrases that float through our lives. It's computer mysticism. Words that are computer generated to be used on products that might be sold anywhere from Japan to Denmark - words devised to be pronounceable in a hundred languages. And when you detach one of these words from the product it was designed to serve, the words acquires a chantlike quality.
moonlight said
He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight.
future literature crowds
The future belongs to crowds.
hysteria rocks genius
The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.