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
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I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in this country. It's not taught enough in school.
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I do feel that Paula Deen should not have lost her job, and I've said this on the air. The marketplace should have decided. The marketplace decided something different. Her books are No. 1.
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Michael Jackson is an accidental civil rights leader - an accidental pioneer. He broke ground and barriers in so many different realms in artistry, in pictures, in movies, in music, you name it.
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When people ask me why I'm amazed at what Barack Obama has accomplished, I tell them it's not because of what most of America and the world sees and knows of his history. It's because I witnessed what I can only describe as a bizarre turn of events that thrust him into position to even become a U.S. senator.
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I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz.
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Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.
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I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.
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I'd like to think I haven't done my best yet.
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I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I'm the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit.
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I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.
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I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.
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I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar.
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This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.
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I'm not qualified for anything else, so I would imagine I'd either be doing something larcenous or I would have already been caught.