Geddy Lee

Music is all about wanting to be better at it.

Geddy Lee (born Gary Lee Weinrib on 28 July 1953) is a Canadian musician best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush.

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• Working at Perfekt,
  Got me down on my knees.
  Success to failure,
  Just a matter of degrees.
  Working at Perfekt,
  Got me down on my knees...
  • "Working at Perfekt"

• Cinderella man,
  Doing what you can,
  They can't understand what it means
  Cinderella man,
  Hang on to your plans,
  Try as they might, they cannot steal your dreams
  • "Cinderella Man"

Global Bass interview (2000)

"The Consummate Geddy Lee Interview"

• For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

• I love to write. It's my first love.

• Music is all about wanting to be better at it.

• Once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process.

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• We'll be back in 20 minutes after some brain surgery.
  • Test for Echo Tour (1997), Mansfield, Massachusetts (as heard at the end of Disc 1 of the 1998 live album Different Stages)

• Thank you all for coming to help us celebrate our gazillionth album!
  • Snakes & Arrows World Tour (2007), Houston, Texas

• We're going to take a break now, because...we're old.
  • Snakes & Arrows World Tour (2007), Chicago, Illinois

• We're going to take a break to tighten a few loose screws.
  • Snakes & Arrows World Tour (2007), Clarkston, Michigan

• We're going to take a break because we are no spring chickens.
  • Snakes & Arrows World Tour (05.04.2008), Concord, California, Sleeptrain Ampitheater

• "We are going to take a break now, because we're old and we cant hold it forever."
  • Snakes & Arrows World Tour (2008), New Jersey

• "We suck ... I'm gonna go join another band."
  • backstage at The Colbert Report after playing Tom Sawyer on Rock Band and scoring 31%[[1]]