Mitch Leigh Quotations

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.

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

I applied to Yale, and I got in.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.