A biography for Andrew Lloyd Webberhasn’t been written yet.
“It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.”
“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.”
“What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.”
“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.”
“'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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.”
“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.”
“I don't really care very much if I don't think that the critics really understand music.”
“I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted.”
“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.”
“My love of musical theater was certainly not typical. I mean, it was considered to be very, very abnormal, in fact!”
“The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed - everything.”
“'The Phantom of the Opera' is the biggest thing I've ever done, bigger even than 'Cats' which, in itself, I never thought we'd top.”
“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.”
“You cannot help but notice that schools that take music seriously tend to be more academically successful.”
“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'm a ladies' man who can never make love. I'm resigned to that.”
“There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.”