Author Profile
David Friedman
1944 • American • Musician
32
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 32 quotesCorn 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
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
It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and my songs have contributed a lot to that cause as well.— David Friedman
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.— 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'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.— David Friedman
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.— 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
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 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
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.— David Friedman
As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.— David Friedman
I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.— David Friedman