Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes
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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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A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse.
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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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I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going to go there. We'd have Jack Nicholson in the lead.
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My love of musical theater was certainly not typical. I mean, it was considered to be very, very abnormal, in fact!
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Making good television is what Simon Cowell does. That's his business.
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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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Mobiles mean people know where you are.
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I loved medieval architecture when I was very small; I don't know why.
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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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I don't really care very much if I don't think that the critics really understand music.
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What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
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Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White.
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I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the Seventies did I have any intention of leaving the country of my birth.
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I wonder what would have happened if automation and computers had existed when 'Oklahoma!' was having its out-of-town try-out, and three days before closing in Boston, when it was still called 'Away We Go,' they added a new song called 'Oklahoma!' I don't think that could happen today. It's almost impossible to change musicals on the go now.
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If you just want ten songs to fit somebody else's script, then I'm not really the composer for that.
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We try to get the best performance out of the artists. There is no point in saying to them, 'You're useless.'
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It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in.
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I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted.
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What I can't tell is, I don't know if there's a subliminal resistance to the idea of a sequel to 'The Phantom of the Opera' anyway.
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They should go back to the medieval tradition, which is that the nave of the church is always used for local business.
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I'm alive. I have my music; I have my children. I am the luckiest man.
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I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.
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I got known as the school swot, which wasn't me at all.