Geddy Lee Quotes

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"I feel a little uncomfortable about endorsements."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"I like to feel I can use any piece of equipment that strikes me at the time and I don't want to be overly obliging to any company."

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

"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."

"I love to write. It's my first love."

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

"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."