Geddy Lee Quotes

U2 albums never get finished. They just get released.

I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost.

I want a hit. I don't think anybody spends 12 months writing and recording an album, making something cool, and says, 'Great, I hope this doesn't sell.' I don't understand that mind-set. I want hits: a big bunch of them.

It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records.

One of the hardest things about being a musician is finishing a project and then having to wait three or six months to publish it and to do all the sort of promotional behaviour.

Once we put 'So Anxious' out, it was a wrap.

I don't want to put out a CD of album songs. I'm gunning for every song to be a single.

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were good for me creatively, were not going to be commercially successful.

When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.

I've never worried about how a new release will be received. I simply try to do the best I can and leave the rest to the gods. The music industry in those terms is something I loathe and detest. It conjures up images of a gigantic factory spewing out parts of the machine.

I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.

After you make good, quality music, then it's your job to go out there and promote it and to market it and to get it out there to the people.

It doesn't take a year to sing a song. Takes a year for people to figure out how to market it.

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

I genuinely don't know how many albums I'm going to sell when the new album comes out, because I honestly don't know how many fans I've actually got at the moment.

I just made my album. I did my best. And I uploaded the video just to 'YouTube.' That was all.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.

I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another album' pattern. As an artist, you should keep creating as much as you possibly can.

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

But when our first album came out, I didn't think it was going to sell a lot of records.