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
understanding feelings needs
If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
years mind frozen
The music I like best is kind of frozen in my mind from the Sixties and Seventies. I still listen to the same jazz music I listened to when I was eighteen years old, and like and admire it just as much.
dream country men
In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to express the possibilities open to the consumer. To consume in America is not to buy; it is to dream. Advertising is the suggestion that the dream of entering the third person singular might possibly be fulfilled.
writing thinking form
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
long enough tricks
It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between.
writing identity form
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.
true-life life-is written
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.
i-can
I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.
past language amenities
Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.
waiting ends sentences
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
writing thinking people
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that's all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions.
lonely sadness years
It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.
moving long sometimes
Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
writing demand language
In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.