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
lying war preparation
There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended.
ideas shapes size
A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require.
legs want heat
Say heat. Say wet between my legs. Say legs. Seriously, I want you to. Stockings. Whisper it. The word is meant to be whispered.
humanity historical lovely
Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.
powerful mean past
Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the whole point. We're doing this to create a kind of sentimental past for people in decades to come. It's their past, their history we're inventing here. And it's not how I look now that matters. It's how I'll look in twenty-five years as clothing and faces change, as photographs change. The deeper I pass into death, the more powerful my picture becomes. Isn't this why picture-taking is so ceremonial? It's like a wake. And I'm the actor made up for the laying-out.
dark fate afternoon
A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
thinking people shrinking
The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.
religious book writing
For me, wellbehaved books with neat plots and worked-out endings seem somewhat quaint in the face of the largely incoherent reality of modern life; and then again fiction, at least as I write it and think of it, is a kind of religious meditation in which language is the final enlightenment, and it is language, in its beauty, its ambiguity and its shifting textures, that drives my work.
men people half
I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.
noise way loud
We surrounded ourselves with smoke and loud noise. That's the way we chose to live. I'm prepared to defend it.
character technology thinking
I do think that in the near future, if it hasn't happened already, people will be able to use technology to design their own novels, perhaps with individuals themselves as the main character. In other words, everything is being individualized and narrowed.
hate people fiction
I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.
memories years distracted
What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.
wise dying innocence
The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.