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I often think how lucky we were with 'Jesus Christ Superstar.'
Andrew Lloyd Webber -
Since 'School of Rock' opened, for the first time in my career, ever, really, I've had a lot of projects offered to me. It's extraordinary. Normally, I've initiated them all myself.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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I think that the wonderful advantage we have in the film of being able to cast a girl as young as Emmy and which we couldn't do in the theatre of course because no girl of 16 or 17 could sing 8 shows a week, couldn't sing two.
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We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.
Andrew Lloyd Webber -
I've got to find something and if I find something that I like, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't.
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Together, we can nurture the talent of the future and bring the empowering force of music and the arts to a new generation.
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Disgracefully, the arts have too often borne the brunt of short-sighted cuts to educational budgets.
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I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, about construction.
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It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.
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All I've ever tried to do is get the best out of people and to bring a bit of humour into it. Unlike, say, 'The X-Factor,' which may be great TV, but has no humour at all.
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I haven't written a score that's going to change the Western world or the musical as we presently know it.
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You never know what will happen. There is a thing called zeitgeist. You have to hit it.
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I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.
Andrew Lloyd Webber -
People like to put you into a box. I'm afraid I don't sit in a box.
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It's interesting that the wondrous 'Hamilton,' which I could not be more ecstatic about, has taken a long time to perfect to bring it to Broadway. And it wouldn't have been possible if it was developed in the commercial theatre from the get-go.
Andrew Lloyd Webber -
I don't think I am that materialistic, actually. Obviously at home in the country the art collection is important, but we have one big room in the middle of the house where we do everything - the television, the kitchen, everything.
Andrew Lloyd Webber -
When we finally came to start work on this, the joy was it was only Joel and I, we didn't have to answer to anybody, and we didn't have to submit a screen play or anything like that. We just wrote it and then made it.
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You cannot help but notice that schools that take music seriously tend to be more academically successful.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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I said, look, do you think you could bring Gerry through, and they said yeah, absolutely, they thought that. Joel was very keen to cast him. If all my music team were happy, I was happy.
Andrew Lloyd Webber -
Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks.
Andrew Lloyd Webber -
I was about 10, and I was supposed to be playing the piano at the school concert, and I got up in front of the whole school and said, 'I'm sorry. I'm changing the agenda. I want to play some songs I've written.'
Andrew Lloyd Webber -
Musicals are very collaborative. Unless you find somebody who wants to do something with you and has equal commitment, it's not going to work.
Andrew Lloyd Webber