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
people comparison
People will always make comparisons.
thinking childhood catholic
I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
rushdie hostage
Rushdie is a hostage.
believe men long-ago
Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence human consciousness are the terrorists.
men earth deeds
All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.
jobs writing fiction
I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.
family art expression
The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
book character hands
The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.
life dust rooms
The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room.
integrity swings language
One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.
life people fake
Some people fake their death, I'm faking my life.
beautiful mean frustration
The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text means practically nothing in a way - , there's no particular performance that is definitive in the way a novel is a solid object you hold in your hands and here it is. You can't say that about a play. If the novel gives us a sense of throbbing consciousness, theater is pure soul, beautiful and elusive.
world way music-is
Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.
obscure feels
I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.