Quotes by Geddy Lee

About Geddy Lee:

Geddy Lee Weinrib is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush. Lee joined what would become Rush in September 1968, at the request of his childhood friend Alex Lifeson, replacing original bassist and frontman Jeff Jones. In addition to his composing, arranging, and performing duties for Rush, Lee has produced for various other bands, including Rocket Science. Lee's first solo effort, My Favourite Headache, was released in 2000.
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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'm a big believer of daylight in the studio.

Geddy Lee

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

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

I think jamming is the way we begin to communicate. In the old days, people actually wrote notes on paper and sent them to each other. I guess that's how they jammed.

Geddy Lee

Live albums are very important for Rush, and they became sort of a closing chapter for us.

Geddy Lee

Live records of mine are very painful to listen to because you always think you can do it better. I don't think I have a single favorite one.

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

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

It's a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because the louder you make your record in a digital process, the more dynamics are squished out of it. Nobody knows exactly what happens, but the dynamics in the ...

Geddy Lee

It's very rare - and it does happen on occasion - where I'll take a piece of lyric and I'll just sit down and purposefully craft that melody around that lyric because I think the lyric is the wellspring for the song, without question.

Geddy Lee

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

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

Geddy Lee

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

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

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

Back in the day, fans wrote letters to groups - you'd get them, although it could take a while. Now, artists can go online and there's discussions about what you should and shouldn't be doing. The minute you announce that you're recording an album, t...

Geddy Lee

Author Bio

  • NameGeddy Lee
  • Descriptionvocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush
  • AliasesGary Lee Weinrib
  • BornJuly 29, 1953
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionSinger; Bassist; Keyboardist; Musician
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of Canada