Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes

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Andrew Lloyd Webber

Profession : Composer

Birth : March 22, 1948

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.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I have a very strong will.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

When we finally came to start work on this, the joy was it was only Joel and I, we didn't have to answer to anybody, and we didn't have to submit a screen play or anything like that. We just wrote it and then made it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I want to get every church in the country on Wi-Fi.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I was about 10, and I was supposed to be playing the piano at the school concert, and I got up in front of the whole school and said, 'I'm sorry. I'm changing the agenda. I want to play some songs I've written.'

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

My wife says I can't remember if she has milk in coffee.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I would have gone right ahead but the only thing, the only phenomenon that's going on now of course, which is different in my experiences, is that you are getting things planted in the Net by people about the Woman in White on the Net. That's not a nice change.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I think back at the time, if it had been 1988, I would have thought Michael and Sarah probably would have been cast but I don't think, I think it's much better that the girl is younger and if Sarah would have been 26 or 27 then.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I never wanted to be a performer. I suppose I was precocious, really.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Mobiles mean people know where you are.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Nothing will ever be as big as 'The Phantom of the Opera' for me.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

They should go back to the medieval tradition, which is that the nave of the church is always used for local business.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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