Tim Rice
Tim Rice
Sir Timothy Miles Bindon "Tim" Riceis an English author and Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Tony Award, and Grammy Award-winning lyricist. He is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita; with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA, with whom he wrote Chess; for additional songs for the 2011 West End revival of The Wizard of Oz; and for his work for Walt...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionSongwriter
Date of Birth10 November 1944
You've got to have a young element in a show. Any project needs youth and dynamism as well old codgerdom and experience.
I have a fear of doing stuff thats not very good and being remembered for that.
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.
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.
And all the good you've done will soon be swept away, You've begun to matter more than the things you say.
In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before.
Digital is a disaster. No digital radio has the correct time and they don't even agree with each other.
I have radios everywhere around the house, very old battered ones that I've had for years and years. None of them are digital.
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.
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.
We probably didn't even consider becoming a guitar band again. We used to be a guitar band when we started out and we've been there. The sounds on this record are really exciting and expressive of the lyrics and the music.