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
great work
My wife, Barbara, is great. She arranges when I do work that I have a day off between performances.
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.
art human main
Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.
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.
beneath dictates four hear life main voice whatever
Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.
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.
people school
To this day, when I say that I went to the American Academy, people are very impressed. The reputation of the school has always been fantastic.
god majority onstage people sure thank
I always say, when you're onstage you can't please everybody. I'm sure there are people who may not take to what I do, but that's okay. Thank God the majority are in my corner.
bother eye good insurance man saw
My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.
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.