David Friedman quotes - page 2

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. (David Friedman)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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! View quote
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Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there. View quote
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My first career was as a coach and a teacher. View quote
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When I got to Broadway, I conducted five Broadway shows. View quote
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Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last. View quote
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I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere. View quote
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I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there. View quote
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It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything. (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 believe. View quote
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I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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