A biography for Andrew Lloyd Webberhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“Because her voice is, it's like the muscles and it develops all the time. That was the fantastic thing for us.”
“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.”
“I put a hell of a lot of myself into 'Love Never Dies,' and I felt quite drained afterwards.”
“One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.”
“Musicals are very collaborative. Unless you find somebody who wants to do something with you and has equal commitment, it's not going to work.”
“'School of Rock' is fun. Hopefully, I've fleshed it out with a few catchy songs and kept the spirit of the original movie.”
“People like to put you into a box. I'm afraid I don't sit in a box.”
“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.”
“Mobiles mean people know where you are.”
“Making good television is what Simon Cowell does. That's his business.”
“A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse.”
“I'm alive. I have my music; I have my children. I am the luckiest man.”
“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.”
“Sometimes it's very difficult to keep momentum when it's you that you are following. - Andrew Lloyd Webber”
“I'm wondering whether to have someone go around with my mobile to completely throw everybody off the scent. I could appear in weird places.”
“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.'”
“People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't.”
“Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.”
“I haven't written a score that's going to change the Western world or the musical as we presently know it.”