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
accomplished feels
I'm not the most accomplished of writers out there, but I feel that I quite effective all the same.
sadness heart broken
They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart.
The only thing I was any good at was music.
writing simple way
Simple is the only way I can write.
dream men vision
Men should be explorers no matter how old they are.
money awful employee
We seem to be paying some of our employees an awful lot of money.
money compliment
She meant it as a compliment.
performances
I've seen my performances. I don't like them.
growing-up college law
I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross my mind to go back. I went to college and thought I'd study law.
years style hips
It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny', and it is my contention that in actuality it is these musicians who are producing that which in future years perceptive critics will deem 'corny'.
music levels come-up
I expect the audience to come up to my level.
levels compromise come-up
I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.
style world jazz
If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.
music thinking artist
To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.