Geddy Lee Quotes

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

I'm thinking about starting a solo project. But it will feature Tyler on all the songs. We'll call it something like 'Two Music Boys.'

I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.

I like people that can strap on a guitar and don't sweat the fact that you have to come up with a song in an hour. I want to work with someone who won't feel like they have to play along with Jason Molina. I want them to just have the confidence.

I don't always have to be on what is the newest in music is. I'm slowly educating myself in music. For me, I feel more free in not knowing everything in what I'm doing. You can start making up too many rules for yourself. It should just be love and fun and feeling good.

I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too.

I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.

When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of an aspiration to disconnect them, to just kind of go into a totally musical world.

To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music.

My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20.

It's never too late to do anything new when it comes to music.

Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.

My dream collaboration is with Lauryn Hill. Is that ever gonna' happen? Who knows! But there's still a lot I feel like musically I could do.

I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time.

Music should always be an adventure.

Collaboration is part of what keeps me interested in music.

For the people that don't know it, we've had members come and go from this band since the beginning. It's always been about collaboration, and it's been about just playing music with our friends.

I'll only pick up my guitar if something is knocking on the door. Once the melodies have sort of been bothering me for a time, then I pick up my guitar and try to find them. But only if they want to be found.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two.

The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.