Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last. — David Friedman Birth Copy Share Image
I don't like to produce albums. I hate producing albums, as a matter of fact, because I'm an obsessed mixer and I… — David Friedman Albums Copy Share Image
I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it.… — David Friedman Appreciate Copy Share Image
I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent. — David Friedman Creating Copy Share Image
For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who… — David Friedman Choir Copy Share Image
I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves,… — David Friedman About Copy Share Image
I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there. — David Friedman Been Copy Share Image
Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there. — David Friedman Because Copy Share Image
I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want… — David Friedman Difference Copy Share Image
I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company. — David Friedman Albums Copy Share Image
It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and… — David Friedman Aids Copy Share Image
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… — David Friedman Believe Copy Share Image
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and… — David Friedman Children Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There's something that has always… — David Friedman About Copy Share Image
When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted… — David Friedman Decision Copy Share Image
I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally. — David Friedman Emotionally Copy Share Image
I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you… — David Friedman Altruistic Copy Share Image
I've been doing a lot of studying singing, and I'm thinking of recording an album containing all my old war horses and… — David Friedman Album Copy Share Image
I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere. — David Friedman Anywhere Copy Share Image
As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs. — David Friedman Hope Copy Share Image
Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if… — David Friedman Productivity Copy Share Image
I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was… — David Friedman About Copy Share Image
As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself. — David Friedman Goes Copy Share Image
