Geddy Lee Quotes

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The first song that made me interested in music was 'Oh

The first song that made me interested in music was ‘Oh, Pretty Woman‘ by Roy Orbison. It was the guitar intro, that riff, that I really liked and made me listen in a different way.
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I love to write. It’s my first love.
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My emotions are very simple and always have been about the Hall of Fame. It’s something that I had absolutely nothing to do with and had no control over, so I never thought much about it, to be frank.
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It’s very rare – and it does happen on occasionwhere 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.
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Back in the day, fans wrote letters to groupsyou‘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, thousands of people are telling you what that album should be.
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It’s hard for me to just practice without writing something.
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Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you’re trained from the beginning to be a live performer.
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I think you just have to cross your fingers that there’s enough artists out there that keep producing interesting work, and eventually it will form a kind of wave that will force people to pay attention to it.
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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.
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So, I really don’t consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.
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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.
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You spend most of your life working and trying to hone your craft, working on your chops, working on your writing, and you don’t really think about accolades. Then you get a bit older and they start coming your way. It’s a nice pat on the back.
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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.
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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.
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I feel a little uncomfortable about endorsements.
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Music is all about wanting to be better at it.
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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.
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I can’t remember the first song I learned to play on bass, but the first song I learned to play on guitar was ‘For Your Love’ by the Yardbirds. That kind of was the beginning for me. I thought it was a great song and I loved the open chord progression at the beginning of that song.
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I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 performance disappear, and everything is at the same volume.
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Well, I’ve been lucky. I’ve never gotten a voice polyp. I’ve never gotten nodes. But I do get sick, usually every tour, and to varying degrees. Sometimes it’s a sinusitis.
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That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.
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My diet, my regime, the whole life I have on the road has always got that little bit of stress because I’m always afraid I’m going to get a cold. And it’s just such a nightmare when you got a cold or an irritation and you have to do a show.
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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.
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I think, basically, the music industry is scattered and in a mess. I think you’ve got lots of people that are so-calledexperts‘ that have no idea where it’s headed.
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I worry about my voice 24/7 when I’m on tour. It’s like a pitcher and his arm. It’s constantly the thing that my whole life revolves around.
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Live albums are very important for Rush, and they became sort of a closing chapter for us.
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Sometimes it’s nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently.
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I’m a big believer of daylight in the studio.
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If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.
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