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

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I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there. ↗

— David Friedman

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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. ↗

— David Friedman

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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

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It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything. ↗

— David Friedman

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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

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

— David Friedman

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My first career was as a coach and a teacher. ↗

— David Friedman

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

— David Friedman

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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

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