Tim Rice Quotes & Sayings

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. — Tim Rice

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

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

I hate doing interviews. I get really bored talking about me. — Tim Rice

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. — Tim Rice

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

There is already huge public interest in stage musicals. — Tim Rice

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. — Tim Rice

Don't you think about tomorrow, think about today instead. — Tim Rice

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. — Tim Rice

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. — Tim Rice

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

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

See my eyes - are they safe? Are they even sane? — Tim Rice

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

Chess is the only game greater than its players. — Tim Rice

I've been a fool to allow dreams to become great expectations. — Tim Rice

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

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. — Tim Rice

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. — Tim Rice

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. — Tim Rice

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Tim Rice

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. — Tim Rice

I have a fear of doing stuff that's not very good and being remembered for that. — Tim Rice

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

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.' — Tim Rice