David Friedman Quotes

• 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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• 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.

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• 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 that for me.

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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.

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• 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 20 different productions of it this year.

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• I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.

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• 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 alone.

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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!

  David Friedman

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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.

  David Friedman

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

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• As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

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• As a person, I’m not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

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David Friedman (32)

Birth:	10th March, 1944
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Percussionist, Professor

About

David Friedman was born in New York, United States. He is an American jazz percussionist. His primary instruments are vibraphone and marimba. He studied drums in the 1950s, then marimba and xylophone in the 1960s at Juilliard. He later worked with Daniel Humair and Chet Baker, and taught at the Manhattan School of Music and in Montreux in the 1970s.

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