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
anxiety anxious
Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing
fiction stories world
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
stars night sky
At night the sky was very near, sprawled in star smoke and gamma cataclysms, but she didn't see it the way she used to, as soul extension, dumb guttural wonder, a thing that lived outside language in the oldest part of her.
insanity secret share
Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.
real long dumb
I long for the days of disorder. I want them back, the days when I was alive on the earth, rippling in the quick of my skin, heedless and real. I was dumb-muscled and angry and real. This is what I long for, the breach of peace, the days of disarray when I walked real streets and did things slap-bang and felt angry and ready all the time, a danger to others and a distant mystery to myself.
art new-york air
He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
dream reality
It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams
next finished
Freud is finished, Einstein's next.
world ends died
When he died he would not end. The world would end.
days-like-this looks packers
days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too."_Eric Packer
noise
why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?
mean self world
World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.
book interesting holes
holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
fire house batteries
The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.