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
commercial people success tremendous
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.
came deeply extremely intense love personal several songs written year
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.
teacher
My first career was as a coach and a teacher.
benefit direct duke
I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.
keeps next
My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.
becomes large music realized success value
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.
fought spent
I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.
people
I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.
people
I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.
trying
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.
feels
It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything.
gigantic high needed singers
For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!
album containing horses putting recording songbook studying thinking time war
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.
concerned secret since wrote
I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was very concerned about making a living, so I conducted.