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Geddy Lee
Canadian
Musician
Born:
Jul 29
,
1953
Me
Music
People
Song
Think
You
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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
People
Communicate
Old
Think
Other
Guess
Way
Paper
Days
Wrote
How
Begin
Jamming
Old Days
Sent
Them
Notes
Each
Actually
I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.
Geddy Lee
Song
Melodies
Evocative
Structure
More
Am
Textures
Moved
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
Work
Myself
Down
Reminding
Go
Lot
Very
Hobbies
Basement
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
Positive
Me
Musicians
Positive Influence
Sight
Musician
Recognize
Tell
Has-Been
Neil
Would
Would-Be
Naive
Well
Been
Influence
Influenced
Who
Playing
Number
Alex
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
You
First
Country
Sense
Live
Born
Like
First Of All
Tied
Were
Traditions
Very
Canada
America
Quite
Different
Britain
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
Love
Writing
Word
Sense
Keyboard
Keyboards
True
Parts
True Sense
Am
Using
Player
I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.
Geddy Lee
Musician
More
Felt
Rock
Always
Accurately
Hard
Hard Rock
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
You
Face
Every
Think
Please
Bit
Able
Magazine
Case
Having
Weird
Name
Come
Like
Come And Go
Piece
Around
Equipment
Go
Where
Different
Really
Page
Your
Using
Each
I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should.
Geddy Lee
Practice
Bass
Like
Often
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.
Geddy Lee
Emotions
Try
Out
Inside
Fact
Through
Liked
Forced
Lot
Get
Going
Really
Figure
I love to write. It's my first love.
Geddy Lee
Love
First
Write
First Love
I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.
Geddy Lee
Time
Myself
Learning
Every
Think
Every Time
Musician
Out
Something
Still
Trying
Prefer
Who
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
Music
Myself
Me
Will
Enjoy
Think
Other
Would
Rush
Area
Write
Take
Like
Involved
Partnership
Continue
Begun
Different
Different Areas
Then
Us
Keep
Ben
If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.
Geddy Lee
Music
You
Big
Chemistry
Bonus
Find
Some
Magical
Make
Actually
Compelling
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
Try
See
Take
Off
Very
Often
Planned
Things
Pull
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
Work
Family
Me
Dinner
Gone
Down
Some
Minutes
Something
Ten
Take
Studio
Put
Idea
Come
Hours
Know
Because
Go
Up
Going
Just
Screaming
Want
Them
Next
Next Thing
Thing
Start
Two
With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.
Geddy Lee
Work
Me
Our
Restless
Always
Very
Get
Little
Fleeting
Satisfaction
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
Technology
Keyboard
Back
Intricate
Compose
Properly
Perform
Learn
Parts
Go
Modern
Order
Modern Technology
Them
Then
Help
Music turned to digital, and suddenly you had the possibility to make things louder than loudest, which boggles the mind but it's true, and what you have are all kinds of different ways of distorting your music.
Geddy Lee
Music
You
Mind
Digital
Loudest
Ways
Distorting
Possibility
Kinds
Had
True
Make
Louder
Than
Different
Which
Turned
Your
Suddenly
Different Ways
Things
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
You
You Can Do It
Better
Single
Live
Think
Mine
Favorite
Records
Because
Always
Very
Listen
Painful
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.
Geddy Lee
Sometimes
Every
Sick
Degrees
Voice
Tour
Never
Well
Gotten
Been
Get
Lucky
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
Work
You
People
Will
Pay
Pay Attention
Think
Enough
Wave
Out
Kind
Cross
Fingers
Attention
Force
Just
Artists
Form
Interesting
Interesting Work
Producing
Your
Keep
Eventually
Rock and Roll does have its limits as far as the aging process. You want to go out there and play while you're at your peak, right? I think that's encouraging us to keep going out on the road - to maximize the playing at the moment.
Geddy Lee
You
Think
Out
Road
Does
Rock
Rock And Roll
Limits
Go
Encouraging
Roll
Maximize
Going
Want
As Far As
Process
While
Far
Us
Your
Aging
Moment
Keep
Keep Going
Play
Peak
Right
Playing
Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.
Geddy Lee
Life
Me
Sense Of Humor
Personality
Humor
Parents
Sense
Outlook
Shared
Experiences
Stories
Informed
Certainly
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