Because Quote by David Friedman

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

David Friedman

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

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

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

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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…

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

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

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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…

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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…

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