57 Quotes by David Friedman

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

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

My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.

Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there.

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.

When I got to Broadway, I conducted five Broadway shows.

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.

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

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.