Quotes by David Friedman - Page 1

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.
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Teacher
Coach
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When I got to Broadway, I conducted five Broadway shows.
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Broadway
Broadway Shows
Five
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Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last.
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Composition
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I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.
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Fighting
Anywhere
Fought
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I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.
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People Something Think
Emotionally
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My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.
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Shifting
Next Thing
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I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.
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Albums
Firefighter
Nancy
Produce
Records
Company My Own Own
Record Company
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I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.
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Direct
University
Benefit
Duke
Hospital
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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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Trust
Time Goes By
Wind
Often
Trust Time Myself
Goes
Realize
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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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Theater
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I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.
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Performance
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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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Songwriting
Heart Me Your
Laying
Terrifying
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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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Creating
Independent
Music Me Way
Songbook
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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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Hopeful
Reveals
Somehow
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The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
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Funny
Peace
War
Children
Direct
Employed
Force
Military
Nations
Poor
Problem
Use
Any
Only
Generally
Small
Large
Solution
Small Children
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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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Make A Difference
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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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Produce
Mixer
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There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe.
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Performing
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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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Famous
Appreciate
Time World Me
Time Famous World
David
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I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There's something that has always been difficult about that for me.
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Success Me Difficult
Success Always Me
Tremendous
Commercial
Commercial Success
Directly
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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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Concerned
Making A Living
Secret
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I've been doing a lot of studying singing, and I'm thinking of recording an album containing all my old war horses and putting out a songbook at the same time.
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Containing
Album
Horses
Recording
Same Time
Songbook
Studying
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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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Intense
Sadness
Deeply
Love Me Difficult
Extremely
Several
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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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Decision
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It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and my songs have contributed a lot to that cause as well.
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Aids
Crisis
Proliferate
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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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Christmas
Kings
Smile
Farewell
Good Luck
Goodbye
Grace
Luck
Musical
Productions
Short Story
Island
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Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks.
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Corn
Ethanol
Term
Dramatically
Limitations
None
Trucks
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I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives.
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Saved
Spiritual
Advisor
Letter
Listened
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For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!
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Choir
London
Seconds
Singers
Disney
Gigantic
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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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Music Industry
Impure
Realized
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I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure.
David Friedman / Musician
Ambition
Pressure
Great Always Where
Altruistic
Great Yourself Way
Great Career
Organic
Push
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