Mitch Leigh Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Mitch Leigh
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
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
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
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
There's more musical freedom on Madison Avenue than anywhere else. It's an Eden for a composer. — Mitch Leigh
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
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
One doesn't go on television for the Manhattan crowd. You buy the sides of buses for that. — Mitch Leigh
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
My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.' — Mitch Leigh
Not exactly what the world was looking for, a musical on 'Don Quixote.' It was required reading in high school. — Mitch Leigh
I applied to Yale, and I got in. — Mitch Leigh
When I left Yale, I was prepared to write anything. — Mitch Leigh
I'll write anything; I don't want to judge its form. — Mitch Leigh
If you're not a nice person, don't call. — Mitch Leigh
'La Mancha' was a gift from me to me. I never thought for a minute it was going to be a hit. — Mitch Leigh
I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer. — Mitch Leigh
o each his Dulcinea, that he alone can name...to each a secret hiding place where he can find the haunting face to light his secret flame. For with his Dulcinea beside him, so to stand, a man can do quite anything, outfly the bird upon the wing, hold moonlight in his hand. Yet if you build your life on dreams, it's prudent to recall--a man with moonlight in his hand has nothing there at all. There is no Dulcinea, she's made of flame and air, and yet how lovely life would seem if ev'ry man could weave a dream to keep him from despair. To each his Dulcinea...though she's naught but flame and air! — Mitch Leigh
You can't make money on advertising; you just have to seed the clouds. What you're after is word of mouth. — Mitch Leigh
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