David Friedman Quotes

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David Friedman

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 10, 1944

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

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As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

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I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that.

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As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

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I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

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My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.

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In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.

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I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.

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Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there.

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I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was very concerned about making a living, so I conducted.

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When I got to Broadway, I conducted five Broadway shows.

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Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last.

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I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

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I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.

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I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.

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I don't like to produce albums. I hate producing albums, as a matter of fact, because I'm an obsessed mixer and I can't leave it alone.

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I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.

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I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.

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When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted to write, and if 10 people wanted to hear it, that's fine.

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I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

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