21 Quotes by 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.

When I left Yale, I was prepared to write anything.

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

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

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.'

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

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.

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

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