Geddy Lee Quotes

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.

Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

Sometimes, writing songs is like waiting in for deliveries. They give you a window, and your washing machine is going to show up, whether the window is the album or something you're thinking, like, 'This thing is going to come to me.'

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.

I knew there was something about 'Sun Medallion,' in particular, because I just had to record it the second I wrote it.

Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.

Songwriting is a give-and-take process, and it can lead to some good, healthy debates.