Geddy Lee Quotes

I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.

I'm a geek when it comes to my voice. I know if it hurts, something's wrong. You shouldn't feel it! It's very important to look after your voice.

I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.

I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.

You have to be so careful with your voice, especially when you're using it every day.

The vocal cords are a muscle, and like any other muscle in the body, they can be strained. So you have to warm up.

I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.

Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way.

I don't really strain my voice.

I took some voice lessons here and there as a teenager but nothing too serious. I started taking it more seriously when I was in Miss Saigon. I needed to improve my technique in order to survive doing that show as many time a week as I was doing it. It's not an easy show to sing, so I needed all the help I could get.

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

I do a lot of vocal hygiene.

I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career. I don't think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice.

You can't treat your voice badly and expect it to stay around.

You can't abuse your voice by yelling and screaming.

There is one thing I should say, and it's important: Young Broadway singers and anybody who is an orator of any kind - lawyers who have to speak in court or pastors or anyone who has a lot of stress on their vocal cords: You should do the maintenance. You should do whatever it takes to feel fresh and good.

I find that touring keeps your voice in great shape.

When I come off stage, I just shut up. I try as best I can not to use my voice at all. You know I love to talk, but I try when I come off stage to have the minimum amount of vocal interaction because I need at least a good 10 hours to just recover from my form of extreme singing.

The way I sing is extremely physical, and it was causing acid from my stomach to wash up to my vocal cords and burn them.

If I go three days without vocalizing, the voice is gone.

There's very little I can sing now. When I asked my first voice teacher, who was the best one, "When will I know when to stop singing?" he said, "Your voice will tell you." And it is very, very difficult to sing now.

I do six shows a week. Sometimes my voice gets tired, but I love it.

I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines.

If you actually relax your vocal cords they actually work better.