Creativity Quote by Geddy Lee

It sounds like a throwaway confession, but coming from Geddy Lee it lands as a quiet grenade under the myth of the virtuoso. The Rush frontman is basically admitting that even the guy synonymous with muscular, almost superhuman bass lines still lives in the same human loop as everyone else: desire, distraction, guilt, repeat. The line works because it’s small. No heroic grindset sermon, no romanticization of suffering for art. Just the modest ache of “as often as I should,” which smuggles in a whole moral economy musicians learn early: practice is never done, only deferred.

The intent reads less like self-criticism and more like calibration. Lee’s public image is competence bordering on precision engineering; this sentence punctures that with relatability without trying to. Subtext: mastery doesn’t cancel maintenance, and even mastery doesn’t immunize you from the feeling that you’re falling behind. It’s also an ego check. By framing practice as something he “likes,” he separates love of the instrument from the discipline of repetition, acknowledging that enjoyment doesn’t automatically produce consistency.

Context matters: rock culture sells spontaneity and genius, yet Rush’s legacy is rigor, arrangement, and technical density. Lee’s aside exposes the unglamorous truth underneath that legacy: the work is ongoing, the expectations are internal, and the “should” is often louder than the applause.