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
saws harder
The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)
editing self voice
To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
novelists periods
I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.
why-not use culture
Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?
humanity historical lovely
Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.
typewriters mind lasts
When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards.
noise way loud
We surrounded ourselves with smoke and loud noise. That's the way we chose to live. I'm prepared to defend it.
technology lust
Technology is lust removed from nature.
novelists gains terrorist
What terrorists gain, novelists lose.
plot murder knows
Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.
technology men blood
Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.
independent intelligent reality
We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one language we might conceivably have in common with other forms of intelligent life in the universe. As I understand it, there is no reality more independent of our perception and more true to itself than mathematical reality.
editing self voice
In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.
fluid force dank
Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.