I regret not buying an Andy Warhol “Marilyn” for $15,000.
Andy Warhol, Interview Magazine, 5 March 2018 source ↗
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I regret not buying an Andy Warhol “Marilyn” for $15,000.
Andy Warhol, Interview Magazine, 5 March 2018 source ↗
A grandfather clock for my partner’s birthday.
I spend most money on my garden.
Cars. I’ve got a Tesla at the moment.
A 1962 Fender Stratocaster guitar I bought in 2014 for £10,000.
I want my money back.
Harold Prince went to see it and he wrote me a letter saying don’t be discouraged about this because actually there’s some quite good songs in here. But he also said something which stayed with me all my life, which is that you can’t listen to a musical if you can’t look at it, by which he was actually saying that the designs for Jeeves were absolutely hideous.
I want my money back.
I already know what I want to do next [after Cinderella], but I can't talk about it yet.
Well, I mean, obviously, as I said, Richard Rodgers, very obviously say, composers like Prokofiev, like Gershwin, all of these, the great musical theater writers. I would add, as melodists, I think if you were talking about the great melodists of the 20th century, I would put Paul McCartney in there. I would definitely put Rodgers. I would definitely put Prokofiev. I’d definitely put Gershwin because he died so young, but definitely would put him there. And those, of course, in the theater side of things, I’d definitely put Hal Prince
Heights - I get vertigo if I stand up.
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