Tim Rice Quotes

I hate doing interviews. I get really bored talking about me.

Maintaining our standard; that's our challenge day-in and day-out.

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.

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.

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.

I love the history of popular music. I love to know what people are listening to, even if I don't like it.

Prove to me that you're no fool Walk across my swimming pool.

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.

Why are you obsessed with fighting? Stick to fishing from now on.

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've been a fool to allow dreams to become great expectations.

In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before.

There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.

To find a new British composer who is really good is rare.

Very few artistic partnerships last more than 10 years, and if they do they tend to go down the tubes.

It happens that we DON'T SEE CHRIST AS GOD but simply the right man at the right time at the right place.

See my eyes - are they safe? Are they even sane?

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.

Don't you think about tomorrow, think about today instead.

No one in your life is with you constantly. No one is completely on your side.

Digital is a disaster. No digital radio has the correct time and they don't even agree with each other.

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.