145 Quotes by Andrew Lloyd Webber

I don't really care very much if I don't think that the critics really understand music.

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.

'School of Rock' is fun. Hopefully, I've fleshed it out with a few catchy songs and kept the spirit of the original movie.

If you just want ten songs to fit somebody else's script, then I'm not really the composer for that.

My wife says I can't remember if she has milk in coffee.

The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, about construction.

At one point I couldn't move or get out of bed or anything. I developed blood clots because I'd been completely inactive. Then they thought - because the pain was so much - I had an infection in the bones, so they gave me pills, which gave me a tummy infection. It's like a French farce.

Where I have come unstuck sometimes has mostly been to do with the stories not being quite right or not connecting with a contemporary audience.

Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.