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
average use shapes
When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better.
confused escalators
She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
sometimes hard
Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)
saws harder
The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)
japan quality phrases
There's something nearly mystical about certain words and phrases that float through our lives. It's computer mysticism. Words that are computer generated to be used on products that might be sold anywhere from Japan to Denmark - words devised to be pronounceable in a hundred languages. And when you detach one of these words from the product it was designed to serve, the words acquires a chantlike quality.
needs interest time-of-need
We need time to lose interest in things.
lying excitement
How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?
believe people missing
It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.
office safe world
The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.
perception firsts borders
Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.
power people literature
People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
california style doom
California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
people dying culture
People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this. Computers will die. They're dying in their present form. They're just about dead as distinct units.
writing thinking years
It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought.