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
admired brain needed taught work worked
My father worked real hard. I admired him. My father taught me you needed to work with your brain and not your back. I've made that a passion.
figured good hot music reason stayed
I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train.'
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One motivation for the 'Soul Train' awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry have heard about the way black music tends to be viewed as a secondary phenomenon by the other awards shows.
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There were three great child singing stars: Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and Jackie Washington.
Nobody really invents anything that hasn't been done before.
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Almost all of what I learned about mounting and hosting a dance show I learned from Dick Clark.
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When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.
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Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.
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People who dance well, dress well, are well groomed and know how to behave seem to know others who dance, dress and behave well.
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When I look back at this career I've had, I don't know where it goes from here, but certainly any time I can make a movie that's different, that explores something that's not a retread of something else, I'm interested in it.
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Look, I like to fantasize that there's more to reality than what we have here, and that's why, from a young age, I just loved Philip K. Dick's books.
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I've been around the surf culture since I was a kid. I grew up in a beach town in Rhode Island. Then eventually I lived in Dana Point, Calif., a real surf hotbed.
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Well, if you're writing a thriller, you have to have your character in mortal jeopardy on page 1 or it's not a thriller.
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The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off.