Mitch Leigh quotes:

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

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

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.

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.

You can't make money on advertising; you just have to seed the clouds. What you're after is word of mouth.

To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.

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

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.

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.