Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes
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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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After I had prostate cancer, I had something which was misdiagnosed which led to a load of back operations.
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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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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 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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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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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 want to get every church in the country on Wi-Fi.
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I'm a ladies' man who can never make love. I'm resigned to that.
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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.
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Nothing will ever be as big as 'The Phantom of the Opera' for me.
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'The Phantom of the Opera' is about love. It's as simple as that.
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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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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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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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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.'
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Making good television is what Simon Cowell does. That's his business.
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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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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.
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I've a rare Turkish swimming cat.
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Sometimes I get the story wrong, or it's the wrong story, and then things don't work.
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Mobiles mean people know where you are.
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Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater.
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You can't just sort of come with, say, 'Yesterday,' or 'A Hard Day's Night,' and it be in the wrong place in the wrong show, and expect the song to work theatrically.