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
kids thinking important
I think that it's much more important to do than to say. And you learn that a lot from your kids, who are watching you, you know?
way scripts kind
But most scripts are terrible. Most projects are bad, that's just kind of the way it is. And I'm not really attracted to those.
trying feels
I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.
want great-things
I want to be a part of great things.
teacher trying
Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.
tvs film my-favorite
I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).
black actors renaissance
I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.
ripple
You should do what you're supposed to do and hope that that ripples out.
writing people trying
Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.
thinking family-and-friends helping
I think having good family and friends really helps to ground you.
past thinking people
If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.
people important helping
It's important to keep the people who know you well around you. It helps center you.
real moving thinking
Once the steam engine went away and we started moving into burning fossil fuels - not just burning them, but everything we do with oil - we've been experiencing [these problems] at an accelerated rate. The scary end-game scenario is getting closer and closer, about what we're going to be able to do to sustain life on this planet as we have come to know it. And I think this is a very real possibility, that we could be dealing with conditions we have no idea how to wrestle with.
water scary atmosphere
Water is an issue, and, clearly, what's happening with the filth in our environment and the levels of carbon monoxide in our atmosphere are the really scary issues right now, the very troubling ones.