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 More Quotes by Andrew Lloyd Webber More Quotes From Andrew Lloyd Webber 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 mistake ideas thinking What strikes me is that theres a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference. Andrew Lloyd Webber ingredients lines differences Look with your heart and not with your eyes. The heart understands. The heart never lies. Believe what it feels, and trust what it shows. Look with your heart; the heart always knows. Love is not always beautiful, not at the start. But open your arms, and close your eyes tight. Look with your heart and when it finds love, your heart will be right. Andrew Lloyd Webber beautiful believe lying 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 piano writing thinking People in Britain always think of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' as a musical - it wasn't. Andrew Lloyd Webber people jesus thinking 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 lucky want world 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 care want writing Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you. Andrew Lloyd Webber caress feels When people ask me if musical theatre should be taught in music colleges, I reply that there is no need. All anyone needs to study is the second act of La Boheme because it is the most tightly constructed piece of musical theatre that there is. It is practically director-proof: you can't stage it badly because it just works too well. If you can write La Boheme, you can write anything. I would also recommend studying Britten's Peter Grimes. Andrew Lloyd Webber college writing people Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater. Andrew Lloyd Webber evening theater want Love can make a summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime. Andrew Lloyd Webber communication summer relationship I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award. Andrew Lloyd Webber awards winning thinking 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 jogging memories school 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 passion architecture able Think of me, think of me fondly When we've said goodbye. Remember me once in a while Please promise me, you'll try. Recall those days, look back on all those times, Think of those things we'll never do. There will never be a day When I won't think of you. Can it be? Can it be Christine? Long ago, it seems so long ago, How young and innocent we were. She may not remember me But I remember her. Andrew Lloyd Webber long-ago goodbye thinking Slowly, gently, night unfurls its splendor.Grasp it; sense it - tremulous and tender.Turn your face away from the garish light of day, turn your thoughts away from cold, unfeeling light - and listen to the music of the night ! Andrew Lloyd Webber light faces night No more memories, no more silent tears. No more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye. Andrew Lloyd Webber goodbye memories years 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 home country art 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 helping littles people I think it's probably, musically, probably the most sophisticated. ("The Woman in White") There's a lot more daring harmony in it than in some of my pieces... 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?... Sondheim is absolutely wonderful and Alan Jay Lerner was wonderful. Andrew Lloyd Webber successful white thinking
