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" I applied to Yale, and I got in. "
Applied
Yale
Got
" 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. "
Going
Write
Want
" 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.' "
Music
Living
Line
" If you're not a nice person, don't call. "
Nice
Person
You
" 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. "
Kids
Lock
Most
" I'll write anything; I don't want to judge its form. "
Want
Anything
Write
" 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. "
Laugh
Believe
Living
" 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. "
Break
Going
Mouth
" I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer. "
Army
Up
Being
" My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.' "
Always
Advice
Song
" 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. "
New York
You
Know
" Not exactly what the world was looking for, a musical on 'Don Quixote.' It was required reading in high school. "
Reading
School
World
" One doesn't go on television for the Manhattan crowd. You buy the sides of buses for that. "
Buy
Crowd
Go
" The old joke was Mitch Leigh, land baron, barren land. "
Leigh
Land
Joke
" There's more musical freedom on Madison Avenue than anywhere else. It's an Eden for a composer. "
Composer
Avenue
Than
" To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant. "
Jewish
Call
Somebody
" When I left Yale, I was prepared to write anything. "
Prepared
Yale
Write
" 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. "
Think
He
Businessman
" You can't make money on advertising; you just have to seed the clouds. What you're after is word of mouth. "
Money
Clouds
You
" 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. "
You
Work
Right
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