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
I wonder what would have happened if automation and computers had existed when ‘Oklahoma!’ was having its out-of-town try-out, and three days before closing in Boston, when it was still called ‘Away We Go,’ they added a new song called ‘Oklahoma!’ I don’t think that could happen today. It’s almost impossible to change musicals on the go now. – Andrew Lloyd Webber
A couple of back operations didn’t cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse. – 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’ve got to find something and if I find something that I like, I’ll do it. If I don’t, I won’t. – Andrew Lloyd Webber
Two years ago I hadn’t even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn’t found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White. – Andrew Lloyd Webber
As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don’t want to write about anybody I don’t care about. – 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
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
Sometimes I get the story wrong, or it’s the wrong story, and then things don’t work. – 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
The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed – everything. – Andrew Lloyd Webber
It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in. – Andrew Lloyd Webber
