American - Musician | January 30, 1928 - March 16, 2014
I'll write anything; I don't want to judge its form.
Mitch Leigh
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There's more musical freedom on Madison Avenue than anywhere else. It's an Eden for a composer.
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If you're not a nice person, don't call.
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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.
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The old joke was Mitch Leigh, land baron, barren land.
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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.
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One doesn't go on television for the Manhattan crowd. You buy the sides of buses for that.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.
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