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
running men thinking
Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of capitalism. People stopped thinking about eternity. They began to concentrate on hours, measurable hours,man-hours, using labor more efficiently.
love ghouls perception
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
cells history stronger
The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.
football running pain
People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony.
taken thinking years
There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.
barns impossible white-noise
Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.
made novel outlines
I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.
berlin doe brooklyn
Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.
fun past looks
Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun.
reality sentences
I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.
independent influence standing-out
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
meaning-of-life doe modern
The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?
technology people connections
There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
war interesting soul
It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.