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
people
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
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.
cross major series sudden
In our day we went from - we went into saloons. We couldn't cross over like you can today, get a television series and all of a sudden you're a major movie star, you know.
work
You try to get the most out of the talent. Make 'em work and let 'em play.
close proud wins
The 347 wins is the thing I'm most proud of. Nobody's even close to it.
fill gave
You can't play enough golf or do any of those other things that fill that kind of excitement that coaching gave me in the big games.
bad conversation hard people shut
You try to shut the criticism out, but it's pretty hard to do. You see people on the street, friends, people that you know are in your corner, and they come and tell you how bad they feel, and that's not the kind of conversation you want. I don't want anyone to feel bad for me.
booths brothers dad fool guitar home learning letters mills pick record remember send sing song spoken taking upside war
Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it up upside down. But I remember learning to sing 'Paper Doll,' the Mills Brothers song - this was during the war - and I remember my dad taking me down to one of those little record booths where you could make spoken letters to send home.
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I was listening to one of my favorite songs that Phil wrote and had an extreme emotional moment just before I got the news of his passing. I took that as a special spiritual message from Phil saying goodbye. Our love was and will always be deeper than any earthly differences we might have had.
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When Phil and I started out, everyone hated rock n' roll. The record companies didn't like it at all - felt it was an unnecessary evil. And the press: interviewers were always older than us, and they let you know they didn't like your music, they were just doing the interview because it was their job.
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When Phil and I hit that one spot where I call it 'The Everly Brothers,' I don't know where it is. 'Cause it's not me and it's not him. It's the two of us together. I sing the lead, and so I can drift off. Then we'll come back in together and the whole thing happens again. It amazes me sometimes.
books gets jump problem producing time
Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you jump on the other.
pages
So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.
course separates
We always think of borders as something that separates two peoples but of course they unite them. It's something you have in common, literally.