Top 100 Lenny Kravitz Quotes
#1. 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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#2. I'm so happy. I am able to see the world just by making music, just by doing the thing that I loved doing when I was five years old.
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#3. For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.
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#4. My mother's side of the family is from the Bahamas, and I spent time there on and off when I was growing up. It's the place where I feel at peace.
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#5. There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.
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#6. You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.
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#7. I mean, look at the people we celebrate - a lot of people who really don't do anything. They just walk the red carpets and go to all the parties, and they're hooked up with the right people, so they're celebrities. But what for?
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#8. 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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#9. I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.
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#10. If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.
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#11. We should take time out to really love; we should take time out to find out who we are.
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#12. People feel they have to live that stereotypical lifestyle in order to be a rock star. You don't have to shoot heroin and act a certain way to be a rock and roll musician.
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#13. Me being in my grandmother's yard in Brooklyn. I must have been about 3. I had this red balloon. I let go of it, and it went up into the sky and just kept going and going. I completely flipped out, because I didn't understand why.
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#14. Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.
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#15. There's nothing more that we love than having a close, personal, open relationship, and I believe that's what God wants.
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#16. The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.
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#17. I haven't thought about making a music film, but if I did, that would be a very interesting idea.
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#18. One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.
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#19. Keeping grounded and keeping focused and keeping calm and thankful, that comes from God.
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#20. Working with Gabby [Sidibe], I realized immediately that she was amazingly talented. I could tell just by the way she'd get into the role.
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#21. 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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#22. It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.
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#23. Fly Away changed my life. There are certain songs that do. When I won the Grammy, I was in Paris. I sort of forgot about it.
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#24. I feel like I'm only in the beginning of my career. I've only made five albums. It's not a lot.
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#25. 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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#27. 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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#28. When it comes to acting, it's about creating a character and bringing forth a director's vision. It's a weird feeling, because with acting, it's just not about me. I love being in that position, because with the music, it's always about me.
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#29. I enjoy what people at the concert give me and I can't do it without them, so it's really an exchange of energy that snowballs back and forth and becomes something that's very satisfying and very magical.
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#30. My mother passed at the end of the Circus tour. After that I really needed to take some time and just chill out and get my head together.
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#32. 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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#34. I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it.
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#35. I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now.
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#36. The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again.
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#37. I find cooking to be the one thing that relaxes me. I don't get to do it often ...
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#38. We've always just gotten up there and played. We don't have any dancers, we don't have all that stuff going on, we just get up there and play.
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#39. None of those material possessions do anything to make your life any better ... I know a lot of people who have a lot of everything, and they're absolutely the most miserable people in the world. So it won't do anything for you unless you're a happy person and can have peace with yourself.
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#40. Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.
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#41. I always read the Capitol as f - ked up pansexuality, everybody is doing everybody. Back to Greek and Roman times! It's all happening.
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#42. 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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#43. Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.
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#44. I'm really happy about American Woman, it brought the Guess Who back. They started gigging again and got their song out on commercials.
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#45. You've got your entourage and people that help you make whatever happen around you. Everything's crazy and you're not paying attention to your inner feelings because you're so busy. I couldn't take it.
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#46. I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.
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#47. 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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#48. I just feel so good; it feels like a very creative time for me. As far as my mind, spirit, and body, I've never felt better.
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#49. I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.
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#50. 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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#51. 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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#52. I was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music ... the art ... whatever ... And I kind of went with that.
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#54. Beyond [Barack Obama] having made history as the first African-American president, I hope that he gets re-elected for what he does while in office, not for his skin color. I certainly believe he has the capacity.
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#55. Later on in life I was like, "Wow!" because that's exactly how it was. They don't care that you're mixed. They see you as one color.
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#56. After listening to "Machine Gun" I have to take a nap.
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#57. I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.
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#58. If you look at the guys in the '70s, like Led Zeppelin, they had bigger planes than we do, they had more money. But they weren't singing about it.
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#59. A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.
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#60. God said, Here. Have it. Enjoy it. I'm gonna be miserable?
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#61. I feel like my best work is in front of me. I'm in the studio now, and I'm having an amazing time making this new album. It's something I can't help.
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#62. I am still into the people I listened to growing up, so I completely remember what is like to be a fan, I haven't changed.
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#63. Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.
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#64. I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.
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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. 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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#68. 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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#69. Things that would shock us years ago are like nothing now.
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#70. I get hired as a writer or producer and I do the best I can to bring out that artist. If somebody calls you to do something, you go right for that vision and you're aware of that person's vibe. You're trying to get inside of them.
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#71. There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.
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#72. 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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#73. I get a lot of joy from playing instruments, and I have a different personality on each instrument. I like to let that come out. I get kind of selfish.
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#74. I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?
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#75. I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of genius ...
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#76. My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
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#77. We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.
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#78. People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.
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#79. A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.
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#80. I went to Paris in 1989 when the Americans didn't quite know what to do with me at first. Now, all those years later, it's kind of the same story. Not the same scenario, but kind of the same story.
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#81. I basically camped out for a year and a half in an Airstream trailer on the beach out in front of the studio. I had no idea what I was gonna do, what kind of album I was gonna make - all I knew was that I wanted to sit there and just take in whatever came.
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#82. 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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#83. God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.
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#84. Eleutheria, the fire is burning. Eleutheria, the tables are turning.
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#85. My life is perfect because I accept it as it is.
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#86. When I'm making my music, I'm writing it, I'm producing it, I'm playing all the instruments, I'm performing. It's my own world where I do what I feel, and nobody tells me anything.
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#88. (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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#89. My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.
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#90. I've always had to deal with being biracial, even in music. When I came on the scene, I'd go to these record labels, and they'd say things like, "Lenny Kravitz. That's a weird name." I'm brown-skinned and I've got these dreadlocks and I've got this Jewish last name.
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#91. Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.
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#92. 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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#93. I wanted to make something that sounded very pure, organic, and personal. I wanted to make music that was timeless.
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#95. People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.
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#97. People don't realize it, but no one lives that rock and roll life 24-7. They think it's hundreds of bottles of champagne flowing and private jets and money. But there's a lot of time when you're traveling - time to think, time to be lonely. Sometimes it gets to you.
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#98. I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock.
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#99. My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.
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#100. You can start something, do it, and believe that that's what you're doing, but then the inspiration comes and it's like, "Nope, this is what it is."
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