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.

Quotes

• 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.

Beyond the Lighted Stage documentary (2010)

• Regardless of what you want to say about KISS, musically or otherwise, there was no harder-working band than KISS. And there was no band more determined to put on a spectacular show and give people their money's worth than KISS. That was a great thing to see as an opening act. We were so impressionable, and we were so green...they were very good to us. Those guys liked to have a good time!