Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

“What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.”

“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.”

“Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.”

“The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.”

“People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't.”