5 Quotes by Rick Elice

We didn't deal with the songs at all, ... We wrote a play. And at certain points in the play, because it's about guys who made music, the music comes in almost like a character would.

There is no pit orchestra. The musicians are essentially characters in the show. That was a big idea from Des. And it set a structure within which we were able to write the show.

We never knew their story because they were from Jersey, and because they were blue-collar high-school dropouts ? Italian kids with no glamour quotient at all,

They were not taken seriously the way the Beatles were, or the Beach Boys, or the Stones ? bands who were written about.

And I will love words for their own sake, like 'hyacinth' and 'Piccadilly' and 'onyx.' And I'll have a good old dog, and think what I like, and be part of a different sort of family, with friends, you know? - who understand that things are only worth what you're willing to give up for them.