Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes

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Andrew Lloyd Webber

Profession : Composer

Birth : March 22, 1948

In Evita I wasn't really hugely involved with it. I gave a little bit of help but they needed a bit of technical help on the movie and so some of my music people went in at the end of the movie and helped out with it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I've a rare Turkish swimming cat.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I put a hell of a lot of myself into 'Love Never Dies,' and I felt quite drained afterwards.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

You can't just sort of come with, say, 'Yesterday,' or 'A Hard Day's Night,' and it be in the wrong place in the wrong show, and expect the song to work theatrically.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

You cannot help but notice that schools that take music seriously tend to be more academically successful.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I'm a ladies' man who can never make love. I'm resigned to that.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I've often thought that we left the original 'Phantom' with a little bit of a cliff hanger, and I thought, 'Well, why not to do a sequel to it' at one point.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Because her voice is, it's like the muscles and it develops all the time. That was the fantastic thing for us.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Sometimes I get the story wrong, or it's the wrong story, and then things don't work.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

If you just want ten songs to fit somebody else's script, then I'm not really the composer for that.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I don't really care very much if I don't think that the critics really understand music.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

The plot of my 'Phantom' is pretty much mine. It's based on the Gaston Leroux book - I've taken a lot of liberties with it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

'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.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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