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
These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.
memories names too-much
Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.
believe following-rules grooming
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.
thinking facts dangerous
I think my work is influenced by the fact that we're living in dangerous times. If I could put it in a sentence, in fact, my work is about just that: living in dangerous times.
sweet rain firsts
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
morning powerful trying
And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?
next ashamed
I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.
two voice creating
There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense.
pain reality too-much
Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.
art mind important
Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film. You have to ask yourself if there's anything about us more important than the fact that we're constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves.
fabric salvation reluctant
What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
book people individual
Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.
solitude way endless
A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
book thinking america
I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.