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
homesick
It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.
white-noise primitive greater
The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
technology thinking people
We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going to die, but they would never say that movies will die with it, when in fact all forms depend on the narrative. I think if one of them fails, the others are going to fail as well. Maybe this will happen to both forms, and maybe movies will take a totally different direction with fiction.
counter-culture kind middle
I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.
week minutes
Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.
fiction stories world
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
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.
moonlight said
He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight.
hysteria rocks genius
The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.
documentaries watches watch-movie
I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.
technology violence
Technology and violence are interdependent.
technology hands lust
This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)
accountability tourists
To be a tourist is to escape accountability.
epic cities people
It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There's an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away surfaces, when you see into it, what's left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure. The epic poem, the bedtime story.