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
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.
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My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.
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I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.
teacher
My first career was as a coach and a teacher.
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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.
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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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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.
itself somehow
As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.
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As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.
music works
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'm not surprised that they would attempt to create a false veneer of legitimacy by promoting their cause through the mouths of Jews and Israelis. It doesn't matter who is speaking; what matters is the content of the message, and that message of an analogy between South African apartheid and Zionism is false and extreme.
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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.