Geddy Lee Quotes

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

I've never known how to read music in my life.

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

I'm an interpreter of music.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.

I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

I love to play guitar. I've been writing my own songs on the axe since I was nine years old. I suck at leads.

I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will hit all the notes on the keyboard until I find the right key, and then I will play the rest of the song.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

I never learned to read music.

It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.

I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.

I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or write it down on some manuscript paper. It could happen at any time, on the road or off the road, but mostly, you know, at home.

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

I write music visually.