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
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When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted to write, and if 10 people wanted to hear it, that's fine.
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I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.
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I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.
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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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People no longer seem shocked by expressions of overt bigotry,
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It's so irresponsible to use that kind of imagery, in many ways it becomes meaningless. It really obscures and confuses rather than helps.
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Not in my wildest dreams did I think I would be on this stage.
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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.
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With gasoline prices expected to approach $3 per gallon or higher, drivers are going to need this kind of help.
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What on earth is an optometrist from Massachusetts doing on this stage?
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And yet we got nothing in these final rules, nothing in the way of improvements on the miniscule change in fuel-economy standards proposed in August. Nothing to reduce our dependence on oil or to address high fuel costs.
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Ethanol, hydrogen, electricity - it is going to take 20 or 30 years for them to have a major impact, and consumers need help today. Even if we are successful with ethanol, we can't kick our oil habit unless we move to fuel economy.
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ethanol has great potential to help the U.S. kick our oil habit, but that's 20 or 30 years away.