David Friedman
David Friedman
David Friedmanis an American jazz percussionist. His primary instruments are vibraphone and marimba...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth10 March 1944
CountryUnited States of America
people
I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.
fought spent
I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.
alone matter mixer obsessed produce producing
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.
definitely
Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last.
becomes large music realized success value
In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.
When I got to Broadway, I conducted five Broadway shows.
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.
Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there.
keeps next
My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.
benefit direct duke
I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.
teacher
My first career was as a coach and a teacher.
came deeply extremely intense love personal several songs written year
I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.
commercial people success tremendous
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.
cars corn efficiency ethanol improve none serious work
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.