Don Friedman talks about performing in Japan

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Don Friedman discusses the progress of his career

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Q: “Do you feel that in the last ’x’ years that it’s been coming together for you?”

A: “Oh, yeah, definitely. I feel much more ... confident is a very good word. I feel completely, not, I don't know, completely, but I feel very confident when I sit down at the piano. I know, I feel like I know what I'm going to do and how to do it and I just feel good. I feel like I have control with what I'm doing, although ... I mean, twenty years ago, I was much younger and I had ...”

Interviewer: “That youthful confidence.”

Don Friedman: “I had a youthful confidence.”

Interviewer: “Yeah.”

Don Friedman: “But I wasn't always so. I didn't have so much experience. I mean, some of the confidence comes with experience. I think that's probably … you're probably joking when you said piano players don't mature until they're fifty, but there is a lot of truth in it.”