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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... →
If you're not a nice person, don't call.
You can't make money on advertising; you just have to seed the clouds. What you're after is word of mouth.
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... →
The old joke was Mitch Leigh, land baron, barren land.
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.
'La Mancha' was a gift from me to me. I never thought for a minute it was going to be a hit.
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.
I'll write anything; I don't want to judge its form.
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.
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.
One doesn't go on television for the Manhattan crowd. You buy the sides of buses for that.
There's more musical freedom on Madison Avenue than anywhere else. It's an Eden for a composer.