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
order funeral design
To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise a shape, a plan. There is dignity in this. Your whole life is a plot, a scheme, a diagram. It is a failed scheme but that's not the point. To plot is to affirm life, to seek shape and control. Even after death, most particularly after death, the search continues. Burial rites are an attempt to complete the scheme, in ritual. Picture a state funeral, Jack. It is all precision, detail, order, design. The nation holds its breath. - (WN 292)
technology hands lust
This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)
literature fantasy underestimate
Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
reality bedtime dangerous
American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
documentaries watches watch-movie
I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.
ideas silence literature
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
future literature crowds
The future belongs to crowds.
pain ideas catholic
A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.
white-noise primitive greater
The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
life-is desperate term
The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.
cameras
Off-camera lives are unverifiable.
blood shoes lunch
Explain me to myself, you’ll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I’ll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.
moonlight said
He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight.
death thinking years
When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.