Tim Rice Quotes

#1. 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.

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

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#3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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.'

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

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#13. I have radios everywhere around the house, very old battered ones that I've had for years and years. None of them are digital.

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#14. And all the good you've done will soon be swept away, You've begun to matter more than the things you say.

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#15. Chess is the only game greater than its players.

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

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

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#18. 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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#19. I've been a fool to allow dreams to become great expectations.

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

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#21. 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.

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#22. I have a fear of doing stuff that's not very good and being remembered for that.

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#23. See my eyes - are they safe? Are they even sane?

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

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#25. You've got to have a young element in a show. Any project needs youth and dynamism as well old codgerdom and experience.

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#26. There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.

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