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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 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.'

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To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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I applied to Yale, and I got in.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: January 30th, 1928

Died: March 16th, 2014

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