Zitat des Tages von Geddy Lee:
My emotions are very simple and always have been about the Hall of Fame. It's something that I had absolutely nothing to do with and had no control over, so I never thought much about it, to be frank.
It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.
There was a time when fast playing and fretboard pyrotechnics on the bass were important to me and when I am recording a bass track, that is still very important to me.
But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.
For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.
Sometimes it's nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently.
I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.
That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.
I love to write. It's my first love.
So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.
I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.
I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.
With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.
I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.
I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.
Music is all about wanting to be better at it.
I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work.
I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.
When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.
I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.
For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.
It's a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because the louder you make your record in a digital process, the more dynamics are squished out of it. Nobody knows exactly what happens, but the dynamics in the performance disappear, and everything is at the same volume.
First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain.
I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should.
I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.
I can't remember the first song I learned to play on bass, but the first song I learned to play on guitar was 'For Your Love' by the Yardbirds. That kind of was the beginning for me. I thought it was a great song and I loved the open chord progression at the beginning of that song.
I'm a big believer of daylight in the studio.
I like to be able to come and go as I please, and I don't really like having my face and name plastered around. I think it's a bit weird to have your name plastered on every page in a magazine, where in each case you're using a different piece of equipment.
My diet, my regime, the whole life I have on the road has always got that little bit of stress because I'm always afraid I'm going to get a cold. And it's just such a nightmare when you got a cold or an irritation and you have to do a show.
I think you just have to cross your fingers that there's enough artists out there that keep producing interesting work, and eventually it will form a kind of wave that will force people to pay attention to it.
Then, 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.
I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.
Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.
My studio is designed for atmosphere. I have a really cozy, comfortable room that has a great, huge glass door that views my backyard.
Live records of mine are very painful to listen to because you always think you can do it better. I don't think I have a single favorite one.
I worry about my voice 24/7 when I'm on tour. It's like a pitcher and his arm. It's constantly the thing that my whole life revolves around.