Lenny Kravitz Quotes

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

— Lenny Kravitz

“I'm more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat.”

— Lenny Kravitz

“My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.”

— Lenny Kravitz

“We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.”

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I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.

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You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.

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It's very important to vote. People died for this right.

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“I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.”

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“When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.”

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“There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.”

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“I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts.”

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“The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don't know what my public image is. I have no idea.”

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If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.

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It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

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The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.

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“I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.”

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“I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I can't really describe writing. It's in my head.”

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“I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.”

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“It's a trip to have a Greatest Hits record. It's a trip.”

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“I've had to work very hard, and I don't really have a category or fit into any niche, so each time I come out with a new record, it's like, I'm a new guy.”

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Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

— Lenny Kravitz

I don't pull, I just receive.

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There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

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I honestly don't remember how I wrote or did the songs. Or the sessions. They all become very much a blur. And each album is like that. It may be that there are different locations, it may take longer, shorter, or whatever, but it's always something that just happened.

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“The way I was raised and the people that I grew up around for the most part were very humble people, and I appreciate all that they taught me, and their energy and their magnanimity help keep me grounded.”

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“You need to open up so that more comes through. And you can just feel that when your ego is not in the way and when you're letting it be what it wants to be. You have to let it be what it wants to be as opposed to what you think it should be.”

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“When you see a close person you know pass in front of your eyes, it's hard core. After all that, I just wanted to enjoy every day. That was my goal. And to give thanks and to live fully.”

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“I'm definitely happy with everything I've done. I stand behind it. You'll always be saying, "Well, I could change that, or I would do that differently." But you have to let it be what it is.”

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“My mom and dad would take me all over. One night we'd be at the Apollo watching James Brown, and then I'd be at the Joffrey Ballet. It was that kind of scene.”

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“Tape machines are effects boxes as well because each tape machine has its own sound. You can over-load a tape machine or you can bump it a certain way so it compresses or makes a sound, tape saturation.”

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“I'm not one of those artists who refuses to play their hits. I find that ridiculous. Hits are a blessing.”

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“A lot of my songs deal with spirituality and God, and I guess if you're in tune with that, you'll read into it.”

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“Nine out of ten groups that came out in '89 are gone. I'm still here.”

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I want to get away, I want to fly away. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I'm sure great scripts are hard to find, but I'm definitely open, and waiting to see what comes my way.

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“What motivates it is life. Life is everything. Life influences my music and brings it forth. Life is always changing, so I'm always hearing new music.”

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When I hear music, it's visual; I see things,

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I was an actor when I was a teenager and it could have been the direction that I headed in. But music and my relationship with music is quite deep, and it really is the nucleus of my creativity. So I gave up acting so I could pursue music fully, and I never thought about really going back. And then [director] Lee Daniels met me and wanted to work with me, and that's how it started.

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“I never sit down to write or say, "Today, I have to record something." I wait to hear it and then I go for it.”

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“I'm very much about the environment, I'm very much about health, about being able to, at the very least, eat organic, whole foods that are healthy for us. And then, of course, everyone being able to eat and at least have a humane way to live. There's enough for everybody, but unfortunately, there's a lot of greed and a lot of ego.”

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“I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it.”

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You can't even sing or play an instrument, so you just scream instead. You're living for an image, so you got five hundred women in your bed.

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“My life is perfect because I accept it as it is.”

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I come in with this rock 'n' roll-oriented music, and it's not black enough ... I've always had to deal with this black-white thing.

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“(On being asked if he preferred to be a rock god or sex god) I am neither. My favourite role is father.”

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I'm looking forward to going out at the concert with a clear head, with a clear mind, with a clear spirit and experiencing whatever it is. It's great.

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“It's a good time for me to pursue acting, I suppose since I'm enjoying having another medium in which to express myself. I've been getting a great response to my work.”

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“At 10 o'clock in the morning I'd go right in the studio. It feels good to be there in the morning before the day starts to mess with you - I don't mean in a negative way, but before I'd speak to a lot of people or get into anything, I'd go in there and just see what I felt. A lot happens in the morning for me in the studio.”

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“One day we're going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we're going to watch it on TV.”

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“Let's look at human interactions. I really believe that there is a way for us to settle disputes nonviolently, using our minds, using all of that was given to us.”

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