David Friedman Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.”

“My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.”

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

“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.”

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

“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!”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”