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.
Am I jealous? he thought, astonished. Jealous of the chance object to which she has attached herself? Jealous of something that does not concern me? One can be jealous of a love that has turned away, but not of that to which it has turned.
I only drink champagne on two occasions.When I am in love and when I am not
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.
She turned to face him. She reached over and touched his hand, hesitantly, gently, amazed that after all these years had somehow known exactly what she'd needed to hear. When their eyes locked, she once again realized how special he was. And just for a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies in summer skies, she wondered if she was in love with him again.
In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.