American - Musician | January 30, 1928 - March 16, 2014
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
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When I left Yale, I was prepared to write anything.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Not exactly what the world was looking for, a musical on 'Don Quixote.' It was required reading in high school.
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My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'
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I applied to Yale, and I got in.
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I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.
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