Quotes by Mitch Leigh - Page 1

I applied to Yale, and I got in.
Mitch Leigh / Musical Composer
Yale
Applied
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If you're not a nice person, don't call.
Mitch Leigh / Musical Composer
Nice Person
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When I left Yale, I was prepared to write anything.
Mitch Leigh / Musical Composer
Prepared
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I'll write anything; I don't want to judge its form.
Mitch Leigh / Musical Composer
Judge
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The old joke was Mitch Leigh, land baron, barren land.
Mitch Leigh / Musical Composer
Barren
Leigh
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To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.
Mitch Leigh / Musical Composer
Composer
Redundant
Jewish
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I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.
Mitch Leigh / Musical Composer
Army
Composer
Given
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My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'
Mitch Leigh / Musical Composer
Singers
Lyric
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One doesn't go on television for the Manhattan crowd. You buy the sides of buses for that.
Mitch Leigh / Musical Composer
Manhattan
Sides
Buses
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'La Mancha' was a gift from me to me. I never thought for a minute it was going to be a hit.
Mitch Leigh / Musical Composer
La
Minute
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There's more musical freedom on Madison Avenue than anywhere else. It's an Eden for a composer.
Mitch Leigh / Musical Composer
Eden
Madison
Madison Avenue
Anywhere Else
Avenue
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You can't make money on advertising; you just have to seed the clouds. What you're after is word of mouth.
Mitch Leigh / Musical Composer
Advertising
Clouds
Mouth
Seed
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Not exactly what the world was looking for, a musical on 'Don Quixote.' It was required reading in high school.
Mitch Leigh / Musical Composer
High School
Musical
Reading
Don Quixote
Exactly
Exactly What
Quixote
Required
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It's still word of mouth that is going to make or break a show, and while critics can't help a show, they can hurt it.
Mitch Leigh / Musical Composer
Critics
Mouth
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New York is really the cheapest ad market. When I go on TV, I'm hitting a country. The market is as big as some countries, you know.
Mitch Leigh / Musical Composer
Hitting
Ad
Cheapest
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If I do what I really want to do, I'm not going to do a typical commercial Broadway show, so I'm going to write what I want to write.
Mitch Leigh / Musical Composer
Broadway
Typical
Broadway Show
Commercial
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I grew up in Brownsville; most of the kids I grew up with went to jail, not Yale. If they had heard of Yale, they thought it was a lock to pick.
Mitch Leigh / Musical Composer
Jail
Lock
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When you think of Mitch Leigh as a businessman, remember he's also a composer. And when you think of Mitch Leigh as a composer, remember he's also a businessman.
Mitch Leigh / Musical Composer
Leigh
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I think if you see that no one is going to laugh at you for it, I think the concept of living nicely will be infectious. I believe there is room for the absence of cynicism.
Mitch Leigh / Musical Composer
Absence
Believe
Cynicism
Laughing
Thinking
Believe Will I Believe
Believe I Believe Will
Concept
Infectious
Laugh
Nicely
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You have to do what is real and what is right and what is good and what you believe in. It doesn't mean it's always going to work. It doesn't. But when it does, it is truthful and forever.
Mitch Leigh / Musical Composer
Forever
Truthful
Work Good Believe
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If one wants to go on living, one must evolve. Before, when we composed, we would start by a series of music themes. Once created, we would hire writers and lyricists to make up the text and the story line. I was the first to do this backwards with 'Man of La Mancha.'
Mitch Leigh / Musical Composer
Backwards
Evolve
Composed
Hire
La
Make Up
Text
Themes
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