Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes

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Andrew Lloyd Webber

Profession : Composer

Birth : March 22, 1948

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.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

You're the luckiest person in the entire world if you know what you really want to do, which I was lucky enough to know when I was very young. And you're the luckiest person in the world if you can then make a living out of it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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

People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I'm not a critic, and I never talk about other people's work.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

'School of Rock' is fun. Hopefully, I've fleshed it out with a few catchy songs and kept the spirit of the original movie.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

People like to put you into a box. I'm afraid I don't sit in a box.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I loved medieval architecture when I was very small; I don't know why.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, about construction.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Together, we can nurture the talent of the future and bring the empowering force of music and the arts to a new generation.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

We felt we had to know something of his back story. I don't think people in the cinema would just accept that he's there. I think we had to learn how he (got there).

Andrew Lloyd Webber

My love of musical theater was certainly not typical. I mean, it was considered to be very, very abnormal, in fact!

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I often think how lucky we were with 'Jesus Christ Superstar.'

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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.

Andrew Lloyd Webber