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
trying way mystery
When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
children believe men
As belief shrinks from the world, it is more necessary than ever that someone believe. Wild-eyed men in caves. Nuns in black. Monks who do not speak. We are left to believe. Fools, children. Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure they are right not to believe but they know belief must not fade completely. Hell is when no one believes.
erotic talent
Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.
thinking people finals
People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.
hurt writing want
I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.
nice lying night
Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words.
needs know-yourself know-thyself
You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
apples disease green
That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.
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.
jail dangerous
Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.
fiction roles states
I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become.
thinking cells brain
He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation.
fall persons syllables
A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.
heaven towers soar
You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.