Top 100 Lana Del Rey Quotes
#1. I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them
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#2. Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.
Who had nothing, who wanted everything.
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#3. When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.
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#4. If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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#5. I suppose my approach to religion is like my approach to music - I take what I want and leave the rest.
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#6. I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.
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#7. I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - 'Lana Del Rey' reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.
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#8. I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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#9. Even if you're the best singer in the world, there's a good chance no one will ever hear you.
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#10. I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth.
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#11. When you get real big baby, remember that little old cowgirl. Waiting for you back in that red river valley.
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#12. I don't like live television, the only tip I have is just pray.
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#13. I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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#14. People have offered me opportunities in exchange for sleeping with them. But it's not 1952 anymore.
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#15. A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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#16. I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger.
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#17. I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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#18. Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.
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#19. When I put out 'Video Games' in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!
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#20. Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death.
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#21. I only know how to do me, so that's just what I'm going to do.
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#22. Loving you forever can't be wrong. Even though you're not here, can't move on
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#23. They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.
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#24. Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don't fail forever.
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#25. I was a different sort of child, as half the children are. I was in that category of being free-spirited.
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#26. I was, you know, a mess. I totally wanted to kill myself every day.
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#27. His Parliament's on fire and his hands are up.
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#28. When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.
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#29. I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.
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#30. I just look for someone who makes me feel like life is an exciting opportunity and, you know, just like to be alive.
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#31. I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.
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#32. I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast
I am alone in the night
Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I
I've got a war in my mind
So, I just ride
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#33. Don't make me sad, don't make me cry. Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough, I don't know why.
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#34. I was always a singer, it was nothing anyone planned on me doing for real, because it's an unusual thing. I was just sort of saying, even having modest ambitions to have a small career at singing, it's still really difficult to do that. Everyone wants to sing or act or whatever.
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#35. I still have my same babysitting job, I babysit twice a week.
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#36. As soon as the first person wrote about me, the articles became just blatant, all-out lies. I consider it slander. If I cared more, I'd kill them.
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#37. I'd liked my first record, it was autobiographical and beautiful.
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#38. I believe in the country America used to be
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#39. And I really have done everything that I said I did do. The rest is just a story that somebody else made up.
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#40. Will you still love me
When I'm no longer young and beautiful?
Will you still love me
When I got nothing but my aching soul?
I know you will, I know you will
I know that you will
Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful?
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#41. Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.
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#42. It's more about, when I found someone that made me feel really happy, that was so different to the way I'd felt before in my life.
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#44. Think I'll miss you forever,
Like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky.
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#45. I was always an unusual girl.
My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.
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#46. When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.
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#47. I wanted to be part of a high-class scene of musicians. It was half-inspired because I didn't have many friends, and I was hoping that I would meet people and fall in love and start a community around me, the way they used to do in the '60s.
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#48. You do things so fast, you end up having so many different lifestyles all in one short time.
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#49. My parents were lovely. They've always been supportive. When you love your child, you don't know what to do with someone who wants to do what no one else does successfully. If I had someone younger I loved, I'd be worried for them too if I didn't have guidance to give them.
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#50. Cruel World has been my favourite track from Ultraviolence ever since I recorded it.
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#51. Money is the anthem, of succes, so put on your mascara and your party dress
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#52. I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable, which I think is sort of clear.
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#53. I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race.
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#54. Doing what you love is freedom.
Loving
what you do is happiness.
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#55. If you're not drinkin', then you're not playin'
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#56. I never stopped writing about what was actually going on in my life. There's nothing to hide.
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#57. I sing the National Anthem, while I'm standing, over your body, hold you like a python.
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#58. Growing up I was always prone to obsession, partly because of the way I am, but partly because after feeling so lonely for such a long time, when I found someone or something that I liked, I felt helplessly drawn to it. I suppose that accounts for some of the creepiness in my music.
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#59. When you have absolutely no idea what's going to happen to you or what your career's going to end up like and you're just really open to anything, then you don't really have anything to loose.
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#60. Down on the West Coast I get this feeling like it all could happen.
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#62. Walking through the city streets ... Is it by mistake or design?
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#63. My baby lives in shades of blue, blue eyes and jazz and attitude.
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#64. I think America is amazing for its landscape and its history. California is beautiful, New York is beautiful, but when you're a gypsy at heart, it probably suits you to be traveling.
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#65. [About Paz De La Huerta ... ] And there is this girl in the audience and she's gorgeous I can only kind of see her silhouette and she's getting like her t*ts out and I'm like: God, that's unusual.
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#66. Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
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#67. I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like.
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#68. Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art.
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#70. Kiss Me Hard Before You Go,Summertime Sadness
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#71. I feel free when I see no one and nobody knows my name
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#72. I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.
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#73. I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.
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#74. Sometimes, love feels like a life or death situation. Losing true love is pretty much as bad as it gets, other than actually dying or losing good health. Most people know that. Most people can relate. It's like the end of the world.
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#76. You're divine.
Didn't anyone ever tell you
It's OK to shine?
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#77. The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.
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#78. My understanding of God has come from my own personal experiences. Because I was in trouble so many times in New York that if you were me, you would believe in God too.
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#79. I learned that there's no reason why people decide they like music when they do.
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#80. A lot of the reason my look is the way it is, is because it's really easy to put on a sundress every night if I have to perform - or just wear jeans every day and a flannel or something.
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#81. I'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy.
I'm tired of driving till I see stars in my eyes.
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#82. Bad things happen everyday but you're not going to be any happier thinking about them. So I don't think about them.
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#83. When your happiness is someone else's happiness, that is love
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#84. I know now that it's really important to feel beautiful. There is a power to that.
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#85. Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.
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#86. I already have success. I had it a long time ago. It's nothing to do with my music. Music is secondary, at this point. The good stuff is really good, but I have success because I'm at peace and I'm a good person in my everyday life and that's important.
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#87. When I was younger I felt lonely. In terms of my thought processes. I had the constant feeling that I thought differently to everyone around me. So, I suppose I felt lonely for a home. I didn't know where I wanted to be, but I knew I wasn't there yet.
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#88. I was always singing but didn't plan on pursuing it seriously. When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.
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#89. [Could you show us how Lana Del Rey dances in a club?] That would be illegal.
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#90. I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
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#91. Mary praise the rosary for my broken mind.
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#92. Well, I mean, taking time for your art is taking time for yourself, isn't it?
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#93. I found it hard to make friends in school, because I was a cerebral person.
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#94. I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.
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#95. I'm interested in the gorgeous side of life, but also familiar with the dark side too.
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#96. I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time.
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#97. I believe that there is no doubts about who I am, an artist who loves music, above everything.
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#98. Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.
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#99. In the Land of Gods and Monsters I was an angel looking to get fucked hard
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#100. But I didn't really mind it because I knew that it
takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it to know what
true freedom is.
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