With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it. – 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
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
Sometimes it’s nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently. – Geddy Lee
Live albums are very important for Rush, and they became sort of a closing chapter for us. – 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, thousands of people are telling you what that album should be. – 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 performance disappear, and everything is at the same volume. – 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 have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work. – 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
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
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
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
If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus. – Geddy Lee
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. – 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
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
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
I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out. – 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 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
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
I think, basically, the music industry is scattered and in a mess. I think you’ve got lots of people that are so-called ‘experts’ that have no idea where it’s headed. – Geddy Lee