Quotes from Andrew Lloyd Webber

Love never dies. Love will continue. Love keeps on beating when you're gone. Love never dies once it is in you. Life may be fleeting; love lives on! Life may be fleeting! Love lives on...

You never know what will happen. There is a thing called zeitgeist. You have to hit it.

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.

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.

There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.

I said, look, do you think you could bring Gerry through, and they said yeah, absolutely, they thought that. Joel was very keen to cast him. If all my music team were happy, I was happy.

Two pieces of advice for young composers: Go away during technical rehearsals. And do not have a back operation.

And music, our music, will swell and then unwind like two strands of melody at last entwined. Fulfill us! Complete us! Make us whole! Seal our bond forevermore! Tonight for me, embrace your destiny! Let me hear you sing once more!

I have always tried with my shows - win, lose, or draw - to take the boundaries of music as far as I can.

I loved medieval architecture when I was very small; I don't know why.

One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.

Nothing will ever be as big as 'The Phantom of the Opera' for me.