Geddy Lee
Related JULIE ANDREWS My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to no... BEN FOLDS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and com... CAROLE KING BARRY GIBB When you do a lyric for 'April in Paris,' those who have heard it before can hear it in a di... AL JARREAU As an actor myself, I know we go where the work is, but I think it's sad the Lyric haven't f... IAN BEATTIE If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric. ADAM JONES ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing'... GABRIELLE APLIN DAYANANDA SARASWATI I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake. ISAAC HANSON CHANTAL KREVIAZUK I'm a lyric man - I'm always looking for meaningful songs. TOM JONES There's no reason anybody should be reading too much into 'Thrift Shop.' I just have bec... AL MADRIGAL SAM HUNT MALCOLM MCLAREN SAMMY CAHN In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone... JIMMY CARL BLACK I usually start with a lyric and see where that takes me. ADAM SCHLESINGER He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though t... DEBORAH COX CASS MCCOMBS ADAM REX The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a b... JON LANDAU Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playin... CAT POWER I'm lyric conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby... BETTY WRIGHT FRANK IERO CHRIS CORNELL I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it'... VICTORIA CLARK We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit ... DAVE HAYWOOD Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my... IMOGEN HEAP I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes. OTIS RUSH I take my hair, and I just play with it. I'll just take my hand, I'll mess with the front, a... BLAKE JENNER SCOTT HAWKINS DAVID LEVITHAN STEPHEN SONDHEIM As a writer, I find it very satisfying when a lyric suddenly ties together more neatly than you expe... ADAM SCHLESINGER I'll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I'll go back... DANNY ELFMAN DAVID LEVITHAN I don't think 3D television gets huge adoption until the consumer experience is no different tha... CASEY WASSERMAN MINDY KALING GOTYE LAURA MVULA JULIA STILES 'Pain' is more indicative of what I like to do. I'm lyric-conscious. I like to tell stor... BETTY WRIGHT JACKIE EVANCHO That song is gone, it's gone, it's gone. Charles and I have often looked at one another and can't ev... MARTIN CHARNIN I'll make a diet cheesecake, but I'll put it in a Sara Lee box. Or I'll have a huge bowl... STEPHEN FURST I think differently, I think it's about reaching everybody on every different plane and every di... DEBORAH COX BILLY COLLINS I'll read a recipe but then decide, 'Well, it's sort of like this, then.' Or I'l... TAMSIN GREIG AMY LEE Sometimes I'll write without the guitar or the piano, but most of the time I'll be playing a... JOHN DARNIELLE A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves... CARLY CRAIG TRENT REZNOR My daughter, who is 7 years old - I have no idea where she learned this - she made a video where she... AL MADRIGAL DAVID BOWIE WILL.I.AM You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I us... J. TILLMAN TRENT REZNOR SUZANNE COLLINS MARY LAMBERT BIL KEANE LUKE BRYAN DRAKE I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick ... SCOTT IAN Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's n... EARL SWEATSHIRT DELILAH ELMORE LEONARD AARON SORKIN Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I&#... RUFUS SEWELL I can be stressed, or tired, and I can go into a meditation and it all just flows off of me. I'l... RAY DALIO If I think something is right, I'll fight for it - always have. If it's wrong or I've be... GERRY HARVEY DIANA ROSS DELILAH I'm not going to comment about potential jobs in the future because that's a rabbit hole to ... NATALIE DORMER PETE TOWNSHEND QUINCY JONES If the project has good writing and is something I get excited about, then I'll do the role. And... GBENGA AKINNAGBE You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to... BARRY MANILOW VANILLA ICE BURNING SPEAR Movie stars are doing TV series, and former TV stars are doing guest shots. Everybody gets bumped do... ZELJKO IVANEK MARC ANDREESSEN I don't have too many bad days because I just don't let them happen. When I'm having one... MATT DALLAS JESSICA ST. CLAIR TREY ANASTASIO TERENCE WINTER The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it ... JUAN WILLIAMS BABYFACE I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'... TAJ MAHAL JOHN CENA GORDON RAMSAY IRWIN WINKLER LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA GAIL COLLINS JANDY NELSON A good lyric sings to me. And another lyricist might sing another lyrical song to me. BARRY MANN ZOE SUGG
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If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big b... GEDDY LEE But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced... GEDDY LEE Music turned to digital, and suddenly you had the possibility to make things louder than loudest, wh... GEDDY LEE I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibi... GEDDY LEE If I start mining for opinions on hundreds of websites that have fan forums, I'll be totally dis... GEDDY LEE My diet, my regime, the whole life I have on the road has always got that little bit of stress becau... GEDDY LEE That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression. GEDDY LEE With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go bac... GEDDY LEE I think jamming is the way we begin to communicate. In the old days, people actually wrote notes on ... GEDDY LEE I think you just have to cross your fingers that there's enough artists out there that keep prod... GEDDY LEE Rock and Roll does have its limits as far as the aging process. You want to go out there and play wh... GEDDY LEE I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician. GEDDY LEE So, I don't know what is going to happen when the CD comes out, how well it will sell, etc. But,... GEDDY LEE I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to m... GEDDY LEE Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from... GEDDY LEE I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense... GEDDY LEE The first song that made me interested in music was 'Oh, Pretty Woman' by Roy Orbison. It wa... GEDDY LEE It's a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because t... 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LEE DANIELS HARPER LEE SPIKE LEE BRANDON LEE SPIKE LEE Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still you... ANNA LEE I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am. ANNA LEE They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can ... ANNA LEE My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer. ANNA LEE Yes, I'm a great believer in angels. ANNA LEE Every day that I get to step onto a set is a good day for me. LEE NORRIS LEE TREVINO That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it... LAURIE LEE LEE TREVINO I was always in trouble. I was mischievous. And movies were always a part of my world. LEE DANIELS HARPER LEE HARPER LEE I am so used to having two faces. A face that I had for black America and a face for white America. ... 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BARBARA LEE We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must ... BARBARA LEE We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served t... BARBARA LEE BRANDON LEE LEE TREVINO When I was growing up, I had lots of smart classmates that were girls, but none of us were really pu... AILEEN LEE LEE STROBEL LEE HANEY I don't sound disloyal, but I've never had a pair of Marvel pyjamas or underwear. I do have ... STAN LEE Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and come... FRANCIS LEE Working a job I love is mentally less stressful than punching in a clock everyday, but it's a lo... LEE DEWYZE TOMMY LEE SPIKE LEE The first day when I saw the scores I knew I could have the win because only three people shot in th... ALAN LEE He must teach evolution exclusively observable scientific fact, not beliefs or religion. I fully bel... 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You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no g... 
I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around o... 
I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of ... 
I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written ... 
Lyric helps invoke the core person. And, without lyric, it is difficult to touch the core. Lyrical m... 
I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's... 
I'm conflicted about the lyric tattoo thing. I feel like that's a lifetime decision, and I a... 
Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't ... 
My chutzpah was me singing to Mario Lanza. So Mario looked at me after I talk-sang 'Be My Love&#... 
Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling. 
Soon the Boov was in the ghost suit and Pig was in the car, which would be a good lyric for a bluegr... 
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I reall... 
I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, c... 
It echoed down the grimy hallways and squandered moments of his life, the answer to every question, ... 
I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live i... 
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the l... 
..I find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's "Landslide," especially the ... 
This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to... 
I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm do... 
I'm terrified at the prospect of Donald Trump becoming president. I think he's disgusting, h... 
I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classica... 
When I discovered the lyric poem, that advanced not by narrative steps but by blocks and layers of i... 
I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that... 
When I sit down to make a set list I usually think, 'We'll build it up here, take it down he... 
When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic. 
Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the ... 
The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Mac... 
I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger G... 
I'm not saying everybody has a social responsibility of what art they create, but art should be ... 
Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm
There's always room for your hard-core country songs, and that will always shine through, and I&... 
I push myself in a lot of aspects when I write a song. I write a piece and where most people would s... 
It blows me away the number of truck drivers or macho guys that will call, and then I start peeling ... 
I really - I don't take my work that seriously, and I think that's what keeps me loose. If I... 
I'm very physical. When I'm writing, I'm playing all the parts; I'm saying the lines... 
I think the album really is about -- it's a reflection of where I am and (where) I've been for the l... 
I have a card catalogue in my brain of every lyric of every sappy love song ever written. 
A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I wr... 
To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. ... 
I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals an... 
Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - ever... 
It's really rare for people to have a successful start-up in this industry without a breakthroug... 
I can't take a traditional yoga class or anything. I'll just lay down and take a nap on the ... 
I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musi... 
If I hear an interesting turn of phrase on TV, I'll repeat it back - I just like to roll it arou... 
I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that convers... 
I have a Chevy Impala that I roll around in and a '89 Jeep Wrangler, which is the first car I ev... 
When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actual... 
Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his... 
There's been lots of theater that uses hip-hop in it, but more often than not, it's used as ... 
I just really like Houston despite its craziness. There is a sense of energy and a kind of excitemen... 
No hot guy should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle.
I'll post a video, and it might get 10,000 comments, and I'll scroll through and they'll... 
I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well. 
In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my ch... 
Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgi... 
There's a McDonald's in the Louvre. 
I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was d... 
Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our chil... 
I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, wh... 
I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people. 
When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it. 
Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of wa... 
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it th... 
I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's ... 
There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Supe... 
It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody. 
I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor a... 
Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind. 
If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not... 
I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would lik... 
I'm always getting injuries like bruised and bloody knuckles from catching a cymbal or the edge ... 
I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'. 
The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have... 
I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way. 
There were so many things I couldn't do when my brother-in-law was president. 
You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there. 
So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and oth... 
No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately... 
What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasing... 
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself. 
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here. 
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you ... 
I love Marlon Brando. Never seem him bad, just less good. 
I'm still that rowdy dude who has after-parties in his dressing room with a concert-sized PA sys... 
People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught... 
The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. 
When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a... 
There will be calmness, tranquility, when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed. 
I was a very lonely child and it's funy but the first word that comes to my head is "starved". I fel... 
You are not flawed, you are as beautiful as you have always been and blessed with evidence of a life... 
You're only has good as your last haircut. 
I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best ser... 