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

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

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

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

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

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.
David Friedman

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

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.
David Friedman

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.
David Friedman

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.
David Friedman

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 publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.
David Friedman

I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.
David Friedman

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

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 to a song of mine and it saved their lives.
David Friedman

I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.
David Friedman

I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.
David Friedman

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.
David Friedman

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 a difference.
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.
David Friedman