Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage (2010) Poster

Geddy Lee: Self

Quotes 

  • Geddy Lee : [During the end credits]  I think we've been successful in destroying these people's film. I will remind them that I said 'you will regret it'. I said 'don't be surprised when you discovered how boring we really are.'.

  • Geddy Lee : 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!

  • Alex Lifeson : As far as the band was concerned as things went on, it seemed less and less of a possibility that we would get back together, and it looked like the band was - basically it was four years - that the band was done.

    Geddy Lee : Oh, I thought it was... I thought it was over. Alex and I would talk about it once in a while, but there was no point. I don't want to play in Rush without those other two guys. You know there's no replacing anybody in this band. It's just not possible. It is the band - the three of us, you know. Even though he's the new guy, he's just as important!

  • Geddy Lee : Synthesizers and technology became a way of sparking your creativity. I liked it because my need to write melodies is more satisfied writing on a keyboard. As a songwriter, you're always looking for an angle to give you something fresh.

  • Alex Lifeson : I loved the idea of the keyboards when we first started. I think as that part of our sound developed, there were times where we just got on the wrong track.

    Geddy Lee : Alex and I had some real disagreements about how profound the keyboards should be. But Power Windows is a really important record, because it was the final and essential blending of keyboards and guitar to me, for Rush.

    Alex Lifeson : With Power Windows, I found it really, really difficult to work around the way the keyboards were developing. Why am I looking for a different place? I shouldn't be looking for a different place. What's going on with these keyboards? You know, they're not even real. It's not even a real instrument!

  • Geddy Lee : There was a time when we first started getting recognized, that I got a little touchy about it. And I remember I started thinking about this thing, about fame and how you deal with it. That was kind of an epiphany... and I said to myself, "I'm gonna go where I want to go, and if somebody comes up to me and is nice and wants an autograph, I've got time for them. It's no big deal."

    Restaurant patron : [Recording video on phone]  It's Geddy, right?

    Geddy Lee : That's right.

    Alex Lifeson : [grinning]  Oh my God, that's Geddy?

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