Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Because her voice is, it's like the muscles and it develops all the time. That was the fantastic thing for us.”

“It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.”

“We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.”

“Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I'm sorry haven't come here.”

“I don't think I am that materialistic, actually. Obviously at home in the country the art collection is important, but we have one big room in the middle of the house where we do everything - the television, the kitchen, everything.”