Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes

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Andrew Lloyd Webber

Profession : Composer

Birth : March 22, 1948

It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Glenn Slater is my lyricist who, of the new young lyricists coming along, is the most exciting, I think.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I got known as the school swot, which wasn't me at all.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask isn't it? I think I don't really think too much about it. I am a bit shy socially, yeah, I admit that.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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

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.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I haven't written a score that's going to change the Western world or the musical as we presently know it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I think that the wonderful advantage we have in the film of being able to cast a girl as young as Emmy and which we couldn't do in the theatre of course because no girl of 16 or 17 could sing 8 shows a week, couldn't sing two.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

It may sound amazing to people today, but Rodgers and Hammerstein were considered by - how can I put it? - the sort of opinion-making tastemakers and everything to be 'off the scale as sentimental.'

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I'm alive. I have my music; I have my children. I am the luckiest man.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I have always tried with my shows - win, lose, or draw - to take the boundaries of music as far as I can.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Since 'School of Rock' opened, for the first time in my career, ever, really, I've had a lot of projects offered to me. It's extraordinary. Normally, I've initiated them all myself.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Nobody ever thinks that the work they're going to do could ever be bigger than the one they do before, especially if you're lucky enough like I had to have such a huge thing as 'Phantom' was.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I said, look, do you think you could bring Gerry through, and they said yeah, absolutely, they thought that. Joel was very keen to cast him. If all my music team were happy, I was happy.

Andrew Lloyd Webber