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
moving plot
All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
country powerful war
Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´
hysteria rocks genius
The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.
people larger-than-life
Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.
writing reflection space
I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.
children night thinking
People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.
book writing character
In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary from book to book. But in many books, there is a colloquialism of address. The characters will speak in a quite idiosyncratic way sometimes.
self want failing
Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.
stories terror no-point
Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.
body arms instant
the instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms
world changing-the-world wanted
I never wanted to change the world.
meaningful sleep exercise
I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.
lasts matter evolution
We're the last billionth of a second in the evolution of matter.
america trying saved
America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.