Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes
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I have always tried with my shows - win, lose, or draw - to take the boundaries of music as far as I can.
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I remember, once I was going through Nice airport with Roger Moore, and these kids came up and asked for our autographs. Afterwards, Roger said, 'It must be very strange for you. I'm an actor, and signing autographs is part of what I do. But you're a public figure who people don't really know.' He was right.
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Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.
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I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My wife says I can't remember if she has milk in coffee.
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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.
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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.
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After I had prostate cancer, I had something which was misdiagnosed which led to a load of back operations.
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I want to get every church in the country on Wi-Fi.
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I think back at the time, if it had been 1988, I would have thought Michael and Sarah probably would have been cast but I don't think, I think it's much better that the girl is younger and if Sarah would have been 26 or 27 then.
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The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.
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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.
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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.
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I've a rare Turkish swimming cat.
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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.
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'The Phantom of the Opera' is about love. It's as simple as that.
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I never wanted to be a performer. I suppose I was precocious, really.
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A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse.
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As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to write about anybody I don't care about.
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'Phantom of the Opera' started in my little 100-seater converted church in Britain with a stage where we did what we did. But it was the score itself was what made it.
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Making good television is what Simon Cowell does. That's his business.