Top 58 Quotes & Sayings by Tim Rice
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.
In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before.
Most of my friends tend to be people who I've known since I was at school.
I do enjoy Singapore very much.
I worked in a petrol station on the A1 one summer. I enjoyed it except when I was on latrine duty.
I have always been obsessed with America, the geography, the history, and, of course, the music. I've been lucky enough to have travelled through the country a lot, and, in a kind of anorak way, I've noted which states I've visited and which ones I've been to most often and all that sort of detail.
I hate doing interviews. I get really bored talking about me.
I would like to write a play.
One of the problems with musicals and opera is you can't ever hear all the words.
I am sure if you went back to the days of 'My Fair Lady,' they would have had one public dress rehearsal, and that is it. And in a way, I would like to go back to that.
Maintaining our standard; that's our challenge day-in and day-out.
I love watching 'Pointless.'
He's a very natural chap. The public David Essex is the same as the private one. He's laid-back, charming, funny. There's no side to him.
And all the good you've done will soon be swept away, You've begun to matter more than the things you say.
I love the history of popular music. I love to know what people are listening to, even if I don't like it.
I love trains. I don't even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but they're not.
Very few artistic partnerships last more than 10 years, and if they do they tend to go down the tubes.
To find a new British composer who is really good is rare.
Two songs I like are 'High Flying Adored' and 'Another Suitcase Another Hall,' both from 'Evita.'
I have a fear of doing stuff that's not very good and being remembered for that.
I have radios everywhere around the house, very old battered ones that I've had for years and years. None of them are digital.
The biggest lesson I had in my life was failure.
It's a cliche, but most people are good at something, and most people are good at what they're enthusiastic about.
I would love to write a song with the Everly brothers. But it's probably best not to work with someone you admire: they'll just show up your inadequacies.
I think failure is the best thing for some people. It tells you whether you're in the right job or the wrong one.
Although I've got lots of pals in showbiz, I haven't got that many close friends.
We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real. You are what you feel.
You've got to have a young element in a show. Any project needs youth and dynamism as well old codgerdom and experience.
I recently declined to support a Conservative function because I'm so incensed about these wind turbines. Like all so-called climate-change doubters, I am very pro the environment, but I strongly believe that it is something that can only be cured locally. Some insane overall scheme isn't going to cure all the problems.
I like to write in fairly everyday language - I've always tried to write lyrics that, if people would speak the words, it wouldn't sound like a song.
I always think 'Pity the Child' is a goodie. And I've always liked a song called 'Heaven Help My Heart,' which is quite a corny number.
I think Barry Gibb would be a wonderful person to work with. Because he just writes good tunes.
I hope 'Chess' will hit the big screen. It seems a natural to me. Good venues, tunes, and politics.
I am sure if you went back to the days of 'My Fair Lady,' they would have had one public dress rehearsal, and that is it. And in a way, I would like to go back to that. Now you have people tweeting and blogging immediately, so you may as well regard your first preview as your opening night because you are going to get reviews.
I went to religious schools. I wasn't that enthusiastic, by and large, but it sunk in.
When I went to do law, I kind of drifted through that and thought, 'I can pass these exams.' And I didn't - I failed three times, and each time I did worse and failed by a bigger margin. And that taught me so much.
In the Bible, there is absolutely no motivation for Judas, other than that he is sort of a 100 percent figure of evil. And it seemed to me that that was probably not the case.
There was so much on 'Superstar' that we didn't intend. I mean, there were things that we did which were innovative, but some of them were forced on us because we couldn't get anybody to do the show. 'Evita' was much more sophisticated. That doesn't make it better, but it does make it different. We knew what we were doing.
September is my favourite month, particularly in Cornwall. I felt, even as a child, that if you get a wonderful day in September, you think: 'This could be one of the last, the summer is nearly over.' If you get a wonderful day in May, you think: 'So what, there's more coming.'
I must have written 15 lyrics for 'The Lion King,' and only five or six were used. Some were scenes that disappeared, some were earlier versions of songs that didn't work, or else the characters changed.
I always wanted to swim the Channel, which is insane.
If you now have 20 previews, you will regard 19 of them as super-rehearsals, which is fine, except you are being watched by thousands. I remember suggesting on more than one show over the years, 'Let's not have any previews.' But no one agreed with me. If you could do that, however, it would be a great gimmick - no previews, just opening night.
Digital is a disaster. No digital radio has the correct time and they don't even agree with each other.
Why are you obsessed with fighting? Stick to fishing from now on!
Now I'm where I want to be and who I want to be and doing what I always said I would and yet I feel I haven't won at all. Running for my life and never looking back in case there's someone right behind me shoot me down and say he always knew I'd fall. When the crazy wheel slows down where will I be? Back where I started.
Nothing is so good it lasts eternally. Perfect situations must go wrong. But this has never yet prevented me wanting far too much for far too long.
See my eyes - are they safe? Are they even sane?
Who needs a dream? Who needs ambition? Who'd be the fool in my position? Once I had dreams, now they're obsessions. Hopes became needs, lovers possessions. Then they move in, oh so discretely. Slowly at first, smiling too sweetly. I opened doors, they walked right through them. Called me their friend, I hardly knew them... Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. Times have been good, fast, entertaining. But what's the point if I'm concealing not only love, all other feeling.
I love trains. I dont even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but theyre not.
September is my favourite month, particularly in Cornwall. I felt, even as a child, that if you get a wonderful day in September, you think: This could be one of the last, the summer is nearly over. If you get a wonderful day in May, you think: So what, theres more coming.
Chess is the only game greater than its players.
It happens that we DON’T SEE CHRIST AS GOD but simply the right man at the right time at the right place.
No one in your life is with you constantly. No one is completely on your side.
Everybody's playing the game but nobody's rules are the same... Never make a promise or plan. Take a little love where you can... Never stay too long in your bed. Never lose your heart, use your head... Never take a stranger's advice. Never let a friend fool you twice... Never be the first to believe. Never be the last to deceive... Never leave a moment too soon. Never waste a hot afternoon... Never stay a minute too long. Don't forget the best will go wrong... Better learn to go it alone. Recognise you're out on your own. Nobody's on nobody's side.
I've been a fool to allow dreams to become great expectations.
I have a fear of doing stuff thats not very good and being remembered for that.
Prove to me that you're no fool Walk across my swimming pool.
Listen Jesus to the warning I give. Please remember that I want us to live. But it's sad to see our chances weakening with every hour. All your followers are blind, too much heaven on their minds. It was beautiful, but now it's sour. Yes, it's all gone sour.
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