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
night light noon
We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.
world cradle misinformation
The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.
fun modern-life boring
Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.
home errors stupidity
To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.
book media age
We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.
novelists connections consciousness
One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.
feelings firsts knows
Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.
may kind time-will-tell
Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.
space digital clock
Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.
thinking world literature
I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.
sleep our-world world
In our world we sleep and eat the image and pray to it and wear it too.
letting-go exercise ideas
First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.
loss thinking phrases
The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly often - completely surprising combinations that make a higher kind of sense, that come to you out of nowhere. But rarely for extended periods, for paragraphs and pages - I think poets must have more access to this state than novelists do.
world way saws
Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.