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
artist hands creative
Gift to the creative artist: positive images in, positive images out. On the other hand, garbage in, garbage out.
years skins criticism
I ask myself, 'Do you want to sit on the sidelines of life or do you want to be on the field?' I suppose all those years of building thicker skin has made it easy to endure criticism.
passion artist enthusiasm
Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist.
hate style working-it
I like having my own style; love my work or hate my work, it's my own.
media language
Language is butchered by the media
trying jargon figures
Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say
class language
The managerial class has forced on us a public language that makes no sense
together language knows
Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.
believe profound common
I don't believe virginity is common as it used to be.
friendship caring volunteer
Volunteers are caring friends
dream lying goal
World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the realist and a lie to the innocent.
daughter father son
It's something families could do together. They can be passed on from father to son, or father to daughter.
mean agreement battle
Certainly the soda companies, the junk food companies fought hard against this and today's agreement doesn't mean the battle is over, we still have to pass this bill.
cutting fire police
We need nearly every department, with the exception of police, fire and rescue, to look at what they can cut. Maybe there are some projects we need to put on hold.