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Geddy Lee Quotes

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Musician Quotes
Category:
Canadian Musician Quotes
Date of Birth:
July 29, 1953
Nationality:
Canadian
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But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.
Geddy Lee

First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain.
Geddy Lee

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.
Geddy Lee

For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.
Geddy Lee

I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.
Geddy Lee

I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.
Geddy Lee

I feel a little uncomfortable about endorsements.
Geddy Lee

I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.
Geddy Lee

I guess, we were people who just dedicated to trying to get better.
Geddy Lee

I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work.
Geddy Lee

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.
Geddy Lee

I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.
Geddy Lee

I like to be able to come and go as I please, and I don't really like having my face and name plastered around. I think it's a bit weird to have your name plastered on every page in a magazine, where in each case you're using a different piece of equipment.
Geddy Lee

I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should.
Geddy Lee

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.
Geddy Lee

I love to write. It's my first love.
Geddy Lee

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.
Geddy Lee

I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.
Geddy Lee

I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.
Geddy Lee

I would like to think that Ben and myself have begun a partnership that will take us into different areas of music that we can continue to write, enjoy and keep me involved with music other then what I do with RUSH.
Geddy Lee

I'm a big believer of daylight in the studio.
Geddy Lee

If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.
Geddy Lee

It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.
Geddy Lee

Music is all about wanting to be better at it.
Geddy Lee

My studio is designed for atmosphere. I have a really cozy, comfortable room that has a great, huge glass door that views my backyard.
Geddy Lee

So, I don't know what is going to happen when the CD comes out, how well it will sell, etc. But, from a personal point of view, it was a very worthwhile endeavor.
Geddy Lee

So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.
Geddy Lee

Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.
Geddy Lee

Sometimes it's nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently.
Geddy Lee

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.
Geddy Lee

Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process.
Geddy Lee

There was a time when fast playing and fretboard pyrotechnics on the bass were important to me and when I am recording a bass track, that is still very important to me.
Geddy Lee

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.
Geddy Lee

When I usually go to my studio to work, I start with something that is going to take two minutes just to put some idea down and the next thing I know, ten hours have gone by and my family is screaming at me because they want me to come up to have dinner with them.
Geddy Lee

With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.
Geddy Lee

With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.
Geddy Lee


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