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
believe writing needed
I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
one-day coincidence persons
A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.
typewriters mind lasts
When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards.
children world
There are no amateurs in the world of children.
technology thinking people
We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going to die, but they would never say that movies will die with it, when in fact all forms depend on the narrative. I think if one of them fails, the others are going to fail as well. Maybe this will happen to both forms, and maybe movies will take a totally different direction with fiction.
mind citizens novelists
Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.
real book wind
A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot...
lonely soul landscape
In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.
kings mean excess
Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings.
night thinking people
People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night.
past nostalgia rage
Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
people facts crisis
In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.
technology men blood
Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.
football past thinking
To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.