Geddy Lee Quotes

I'm not a great piano player.

I'm not really a pianist.

I think I'm a very poor piano player.

There are some people who are just plain great at making music. That's not who I am.

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

I'm not saying I'm the bee's knees. But I am a legitimate musician.

I wasn't talented as a musician.

I play guitar... I like to say that I'm pretty good, but it takes someone else to tell you that you're really good.

See, I'm not a very good musician.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

I was a lucky kid. You could have got 10 kids to be in The Byrds who were better than I was.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

I'd say I'm really, really good for a 16-year-old, which is where I peaked. I'm impressive, but not classically trained, not a concert pianist.

As a piano player, if 10 is concert level, I'd put myself at a 5 or a 6, but in a completely different genre than classical or opera. In terms of classical and opera, playing accompaniment, I'd say I was a 3.

I am very musical. Am I a great singer? No. But I'm extremely musical.

I'm musical in the sense that I can write a song, but I realised when I was learning the piano as a child that there were people who played it so much better.

I feel like I'm an okay piano player. To the music world, to people that's in the hip-hop culture, they probably look at me like, 'Zaytoven the greatest piano player in the world.' I'm okay.

I don't really admire musicianship per se - as is obvious from my own playing.

The only thing I was any good at was music.

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.