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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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We try to get the best performance out of the artists. There is no point in saying to them, 'You're useless.'
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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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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I never wanted to be a performer. I suppose I was precocious, really.
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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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Sometimes I get the story wrong, or it's the wrong story, and then things don't work.
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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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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.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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I'm alive. I have my music; I have my children. I am the luckiest man.
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Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I'm sorry haven't come here.
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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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A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse.
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Well we'd just seen Gerry. I think he wanted somebody who had that authority and was handsome. The thing is, he's a big hunk isn't he? All I can say, if you look at his chat line, or the Phantom website, it's quite worrying. Because the girls really seem to love him.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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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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The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed - everything.
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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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Where I have come unstuck sometimes has mostly been to do with the stories not being quite right or not connecting with a contemporary audience.
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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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I do want to write again. I hope to. But it's also important for me to realize, as I get older, that I don't have to be doing everything all at once.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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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 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.
Andrew Lloyd Webber -
Mobiles mean people know where you are.
Andrew Lloyd Webber