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
thinking fiction done
I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read. I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from.
Something lurked inside the truth.
light tricks existence
All human existence is a trick of light.
trying hopeless imagine
Certainly I've never tried to imagine what the future will hold. It's a hopeless endeavor to try to do such a thing...
effort attention happenings
It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at.
sex appearance shattering
Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.
thinking clothes people
Famous people don't want to be told that you have a quality in common with them. It makes them think there's something crawling in their clothes.
people might way
Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.
thinking confusion fiction
I think fiction recues history from its confusions.
thinking silence judgment
I think silence is the condition you accept as the judgment on your crimes.
editing self voice
To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
novelists periods
I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
why-not use culture
Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?
photography past technology
A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.