Duke university Quotes by David Friedman

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

— David Friedman

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…

— David Friedman

I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took…

— David Friedman

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

— David Friedman

For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing…

— David Friedman

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

— David Friedman

I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they…

— David Friedman

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

— David Friedman

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

— David Friedman

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…

— David Friedman

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

— David Friedman

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…

— David Friedman

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…

— David Friedman

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

— David Friedman

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…

— David Friedman