David Friedman Quotes

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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.
• 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…
• I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.
• Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there.
• 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…
• My first career was as a coach and a teacher.
• When I got to Broadway, I conducted five Broadway shows.
• My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.
• I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.
• 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…
• I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.
• As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.
• 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…
• As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.
• Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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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