There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.
Andrew Lloyd WebberRead
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.
Interpretation
Love has the power to transform our perceptions and experiences, both positively and negatively.
This quote highlights the profound impact that love has on our lives, suggesting that it alters our perceptions of time, meaning, and emotional depth. Andrew Lloyd Webber captures the essence of love as a transformative force that can enhance joy and simultaneously intensify pain, illustrating the dual nature of love's power to reshape our experiences and worldviews.
In practice
This quote is perfect to share at a wedding to highlight the transformative power of love.
There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.
I do want to write again. I hope to. But it's also important for me to realize, as I get older, that I don't have to be doing everything all at once.
I have always tried with my shows - win, lose, or draw - to take the boundaries of music as far as I can.
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.
Nobody ever thinks that the work they're going to do could ever be bigger than the one they do before, especially if you're lucky enough like I had to have such a huge thing as 'Phantom' was.
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.
I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a wit.' But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time." "Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but THAT was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.
It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a more noble extract, and in all probability might have brought greater revenues of glory to God; yet that Christ should pass by those golden vessels, and make us clods of earth into stars of glory -- Oh, the hyperbole of Christ's love!
Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.
And you will remember that love is not getting, but giving; not a wild dream of pleasure, and a madness of desire β oh no, love is not that β it is goodness, and honour, and peace, and pure living β yes, love is that; and it is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives longest.
For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.
And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.
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