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 looks ifs
Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look.
opera vivid soap
Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.
destiny names mail
If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail.
writing needs looks
I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.
technology lust
Technology is lust removed from nature.
drama clouds light
Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.
communication brain neurons
Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring.
dangerous subjects felt
I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.
novelists gains terrorist
What terrorists gain, novelists lose.
assets free-market harder
Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.
beautiful mind genius
The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.
ideas trying pages
If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.
dream reality needs
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.
plot murder knows
Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.