Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate, and often it isn't.

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

Sometimes we misinterpret, sometimes we misunderstand, sometimes we make mistakes.

Error is worse than ignorance.

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

To this day, I have people I might meet who will make assumptions about my life based on fictional elements of 'The Squid And The Whale.' But I think that's par for the course if you make something that feels kind of real.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

I improve on misquotation.

Avoid miscommunication. The price you pay for it is horrendous.

First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.

I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.

I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.

I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about.

But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

Who hears wrong, replies wrong.

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the effect for the cause.

A misconception remains a misconception, even when it is shared by the majority of people.

We were almost all wrong