Art & Creativity Quote by Geddy Lee

Geddy Lee is doing that careful, half-modest, half-determined thing artists do when they’re trying to step out of a long shadow without pretending it isn’t there. The name RUSH is both passport and prison: it grants instant gravitas, but it also fixes expectations so tightly that any new move gets judged as either “still Rush” or “not Rush enough.” This line reads like a preemptive negotiation with the audience, a way of asking permission to be more than a brand they already bought into.

The intent is practical: he’s signaling a real collaboration with “Ben,” not a side-hustle or vanity project. “Partnership” matters here; it suggests shared authorship and risk, a counterweight to the idea of Lee as an isolated virtuoso. The phrasing “different areas of music” is deliberately open-ended, almost strategically vague, because specificity would trigger genre-policing. He wants possibility without prematurely narrowing the lane.

The subtext, though, is about continuity as much as change. He’s not rejecting Rush; he’s securing an “other than” that keeps him “involved with music” in a life where his primary outlet may be limited by band logistics, legacy expectations, or simply the desire to not repeat himself. “Write, enjoy” is a quiet manifesto against the machinery of touring cycles and fan-service setlists. It’s Lee insisting that joy and curiosity are still the job, even after the canon is built.