57 Quotes by 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.

For Benny, it was not about him; it was about family, friends and teamwork. He was proud, yet unpretentious.

It's so irresponsible to use that kind of imagery, in many ways it becomes meaningless. It really obscures and confuses rather than helps.

Not in my wildest dreams did I think I would be on this stage.

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.

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.

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.

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.

This is more of the Bill Ford that we expected to see and have been hoping to see, ... But you've got to take some concrete steps, too.