Creativity Quote by Geddy Lee

Fame, for Geddy Lee, reads less like a prize than a logistical problem. His complaint isn’t about attention in the abstract; it’s about the way modern celebrity turns a working musician into a traveling logo. “Come and go as I please” is a small, almost domestic wish, but it cuts against an industry that sells access as part of the product. If people feel entitled to your presence, you’re never really offstage.

The line about his “face and name plastered around” zeroes in on a particular kind of dissonance: endorsement culture. Magazines and ads don’t just document what you do; they repackage your identity into a series of branded poses, “each case you’re using a different piece of equipment.” The subtext is quietly scathing: the music becomes secondary to the gear, the craft reduced to a carousel of consumer choices, and the artist flattened into a credential that moves units.

It’s also a very Rush-era stance: technical mastery and obsessive musicianship, yes; self-mythologizing, no. Lee’s discomfort signals a boundary between performance and personhood. He’s not denying he uses the equipment; he’s resisting the implication that his name is the meaningful part of the story. In a culture that treats authenticity as a marketing angle, calling it “weird” is the most rock-star way of refusing to play along: understated, practical, and pointed.