Geddy Lee Quotes

Music is a dialogue.

The lifelong goal of an improviser is to listen to what the other person is saying, taking it in, and responding.

Communication is important.

I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

You've got to find a way to relate to people. I just did an improvised episode for Joe Swanberg's new Netflix show, 'Easy,' and it was a huge learning curve for me and taught me so much about fear and courage. But when you're present in the moment, the audience, it's incomparable.

Everyone loves to get a letter. I love sending them. I love getting them.

It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced.

I see magic in conversation and words, and music is purely speaking to others, isn't it?

Encourage people to mingle, meet, and communicate.

That's what music-making is: a dialogue.

If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed

I think that's the most important thing: that we create dialogue.

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.

Writing is, after all, a gesture towards other people, giving something to others. And so it's not a completely hermetic exercise. It's really an opening up.

I'm definitely one of those people that what comes into my head falls out of my mouth. That's a way for me to be even more creative, to sort of get the ball rolling and start parlaying off of somebody and interacting. That charge or that friction sometimes - if it's positive or negative - is inspiring, and it gets people to be I think creative, maybe.

Connecting today is a dialogue.

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation.

There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

People write to me all the time, and I write back.

Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.