Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes
- All Quotes
-
After I had prostate cancer, I had something which was misdiagnosed which led to a load of back operations.
-
I don't know what really makes a great musical or not. In the end, you write it, and you write it because you want to write it.
-
Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.
-
The moment the doctor said he wanted to do a biopsy, in my heart I thought I'd probably got it. But I also know a lot of people who have also had prostate cancer, so I had a reasonably good idea what to expect.
-
I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do.
-
I have always tried with my shows - win, lose, or draw - to take the boundaries of music as far as I can.
-
I want to get every church in the country on Wi-Fi.
-
I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.
-
I'm a ladies' man who can never make love. I'm resigned to that.
-
Nothing will ever be as big as 'The Phantom of the Opera' for me.
-
A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse.
-
'The Phantom of the Opera' is about love. It's as simple as that.
-
I guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn't take place and we just saw each other socially over the years so we were friends.
-
The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.
-
And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.
-
It may sound amazing to people today, but Rodgers and Hammerstein were considered by - how can I put it? - the sort of opinion-making tastemakers and everything to be 'off the scale as sentimental.'
-
Making good television is what Simon Cowell does. That's his business.
-
The fact is that 'The Wizard Of Oz' has never really worked in the theatre. The film has one or two holes where, in the theatre, you need a song. For example, there's nothing for either of the two witches to sing.
-
Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater.
-
If you look at my career... I couldn't possibly have chosen those subjects if I was thinking, 'That's a great commercial idea.' I'm not aware of a great musical where someone has done that.
-
Mobiles mean people know where you are.
-
We felt we had to know something of his back story. I don't think people in the cinema would just accept that he's there. I think we had to learn how he (got there).
-
Sometimes I get the story wrong, or it's the wrong story, and then things don't work.
-
I'm not a critic, and I never talk about other people's work.