Top 35 Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Love changes everything. Days are longer, words mean more. Love changes everything. Pain is deeper than before. Love can turn your world around, and that world will last forever.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

2. “Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

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

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

4. “No matter what they tell you, no matter what they do, no matter what they teach you, what you believe is true.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

5. “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.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

6. “People in Britain always think of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ as a musical – it wasn’t.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

7. “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.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

8. “Open up your mind, let your fantasies unwind.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

9. “No more memories, no more silent tears. No more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

10. “Nobody seems to think it’s a good idea to mention mistakes, but I think it’s important to acknowledge the mistakes you’ve made in life, because it’s really through those that you learn things. I’ve made hundreds...”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

11. “Love can make a summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

12. “I’m going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don’t, I’ve written 14 musicals now, I don’t want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

13. “Sometimes it’s very difficult to keep momentum when it’s you that you are following. – Andrew Lloyd Webber.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

14. “The moment the doctor said he wanted to do a biopsy, in my heart I thought I’d probably got it. But I also know a lot of people who have also had prostate cancer, so I had a reasonably good idea what to expect.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

15. “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.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

16. “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.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

17. “And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

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

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

19. “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.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

20. “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

21. “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

22. “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.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

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

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

24. “I guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn’t take place and we just saw each other socially over the years so we were friends.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

25. “Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I’m not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that’s not a good sign.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

26. “You are lucky if you know what you want to do in life. You are incredibly lucky if you are able to have a career in it.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

27. “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

28. “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.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

29. “I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the Seventies did I have any intention of leaving the country of my birth.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

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

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

31. “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.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

32. “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.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

33. “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

34. “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

35. “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

36. “I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

37. “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.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

38. “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.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

39. “Should you want to listen to Variations, try hearing it from a good-condition original 1978 vinyl pressing. Because the sides are relatively short, the sound quality is amazing.”

— Andrew Lloyd Webber