Mitch Leigh Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.”

“'La Mancha' was a gift from me to me. I never thought for a minute it was going to be a hit.”

“My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'”

“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.”

“Not exactly what the world was looking for, a musical on 'Don Quixote.' It was required reading in high school.”

“One doesn't go on television for the Manhattan crowd. You buy the sides of buses for that.”

“The old joke was Mitch Leigh, land baron, barren land.”

“There's more musical freedom on Madison Avenue than anywhere else. It's an Eden for a composer.”

“To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.”

“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.”