Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes
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.
No matter what they tell you, no matter what they do, no matter what they teach you, what you believe is true.
What strikes me is that theres a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't.
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.
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.
Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater.
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.
No more memories, no more silent tears. No more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye.
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.
Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.
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.
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.
I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.
I've got to find something and if I find something that I like, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't.
All I've ever tried to do is get the best out of people and to bring a bit of humour into it. Unlike, say, 'The X-Factor,' which may be great TV, but has no humour at all.
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.
We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.
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.
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.
Love changes everything. Days are longer, words mean more. Love changes everything. Pain is deeper than before. Love can turn your world around, and that world will last forever.
The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed - everything.
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.
What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
... true evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself.