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
past talking fading
There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.
theory differentiate
That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.
mean white flesh
I felt myself getting whiter... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?
america promise violence
I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America...
war technology realization
War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.
beautiful light bird
They passed out of the shade beneath the eaves and flew into sunglare and silence and it was an action she only partly saw, elusive and mutely beautiful, the birds so sunstruck they were consumed by light, disembodied, turned into something sheer and fleet and scatter-bright.
death needs boundaries
Isn't death the boundary we need?
blow two world
Terror is now the world narrative, unquestionably. When those two buildings were struck, and when they collapsed, it was, in effect, an extraordinary blow to consciousness, and it changed everything.
death
The dead have a presence.
people tolerance hardship
People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
honesty inherent ifs
... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.
self interest loses
I'd like to lose interest in myself ...
age difficult reader
Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.
agents technique kind
Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.