Geddy Lee Quotes

The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

Music industry's a fragmented mess.

I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

There's chaos out there, and chaos means opportunity.

'The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry.

I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times.

I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea.

Man's greatest fear is chaos.

I didn't have any knowledge of the music industry when I first got to L.A., and I really didn't know on a creative level what I wanted to sound like, so I had to do a lot of experimenting. It led to a spiral of depression and being broke.

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.

It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge.

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

The music business has changed incredibly. There used to be 50 record companies. Now there's only three, and it's just getting smaller and smaller. But then again, you have the Internet, so anybody who has music can get it out there.

Nice guys just don't finish first in the music industry.

You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

The first thing you learn about the music business is that it changes very quickly. You come into it at a certain point and you think you have a handle on it... And then, three years later, the whole thing has been turned upside-down.

Very often at the end of 'The Sopranos' you get the feeling that its not under control, you should be very worried, and life is kind of really, really messed up at lot of times. It leaves you feeling very disconcerted. That was kind of the point of it.