Top 100 Kravitz Quotes
#3. Something I've learned from people like U2, the Stones and Lenny Kravitz is that the grind of live shows is so necessary [to build your career].
Alicia Keys
#4. 'Paper Planes' by M.I.A. is very catchy. I like that, but I listen to everything from rap to Lenny Kravitz to Coldplay, depending on my mood. And my favorite song of all time is 'Always and Forever' by Heatwave.
Keshia Knight Pulliam
#5. I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.
Spike Lee
#6. Lenny Kravitz was the biggest gentleman on set. He always helped the ladies, like by pulling out the chair for them. If we were both walking, he would always stop and let me go before him-little things like that.
Willow Shields
#7. We went to see Lenny Kravitz last summer in Austin and he was awesome. His show was just awesome. I mean, like, when you see some of these great bands, you sit there and think, man, if only we were that tight, you know?
Isaac Hanson
#8. We get along, we talk music.Lenny Kravitz took me to Harlem to see this little jazz show in the back of a church. It was just shitty fluorescent lights and a small stage piano, but this band tore it up.
Penn Dayton Badgley
#9. I don't sing. I played guitar for a while. I'm not great, I'm not Lenny Kravitz by any means, but I do like to strum.
Liam Hemsworth
#10. I really really wanna see Lenny Kravitz 'cause I wanna be his rockchick!
Emma Bunton
#11. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#12. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#13. If everyone is there to make a good film, everyone is down to earth, and everyone is there for the right reasons - the scale doesn't really matter I think.
Zoe Kravitz
#14. I do think women are unfairly judged by their physical appearance, but I don't think it had anything to do with being mixed-race. In my opinion, mixed-race people are the most beautiful.
Zoe Kravitz
#15. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#16. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#17. Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about me - as it should be.
Lenny Kravitz
#18. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#19. I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.
Lenny Kravitz
#20. I'm sure at one point I will do some acting again, but it would have to be the right thing. I'm not going to do it just because people are offering it to me. Not for those box-office, bullshit, money, noncreative people. But I'll do it when it's right to do it.
Lenny Kravitz
#21. I used to do plays and some television commercials when I was younger. I guess my mom's being an actress got me interested in that, but music definitely took its place.
Lenny Kravitz
#22. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#23. I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.
Lenny Kravitz
#24. If I had to associate myself with one song, it would probably be Let Love Rule. It's so simple and to the point. It speaks for itself.
Lenny Kravitz
#25. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#26. Nine out of ten groups that came out in '89 are gone. I'm still here.
Lenny Kravitz
#27. That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.
Zoe Kravitz
#28. I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.
Zoe Kravitz
#29. Be confident, and just do it. It's all about not questioning what everyone else is thinking, since they're probably looking to others to know what is or isn't cool.
Zoe Kravitz
#30. When your love is so deep and selfless that it demands to be reciprocated , the people you love are forced-for your sake, not theirs - into becoming better human beings.
Lee Kravitz
#31. There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.
Lenny Kravitz
#32. You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.
Lenny Kravitz
#33. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#34. I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school.
Zoe Kravitz
#35. 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?
Lenny Kravitz
#36. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#37. I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.
Lenny Kravitz
#38. Anyone that is able to put a high school film and gonzo journalism together, it's like, "Yes, please!"
Zoe Kravitz
#39. I'm only at the beginning of my career, but I feel successful in that I haven't sold out in any way, shape or form. I feel good about the choices I've made, and I don't feel like I've let go of any of my values.
Zoe Kravitz
#40. In the last 'Batman' movie, they told me that I couldn't get an audition for a small role they were casting because they weren't 'going urban.' It was like, 'What does that have to do with anything?'
Zoe Kravitz
#41. I want to get away, I want to fly away. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Lenny Kravitz
#42. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#43. I had talked to my agent a lot over the years about not being interested in stereotypical "black films" [because] I didn't like the way they were representing black people over and over and over again in the same way.
Zoe Kravitz
#44. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#46. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#47. We should take time out to really love; we should take time out to find out who we are.
Lenny Kravitz
#48. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#49. I like photography and I write; I also write music. One day I would like to direct [films] as well .
Zoe Kravitz
#50. I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.
Zoe Kravitz
#51. Music and acting are the most prominent. But I don't like to compare them, since they're both very, very important to me.
Zoe Kravitz
#52. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#53. It kind of varies. I don't have a method yet. It depends on the script and the character I think I need. I've worked with acting coaches, researched roles, and channeled different parts of myself. It's on a case-by-case for me, right now.
Zoe Kravitz
#54. My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.
Zoe Kravitz
#55. Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.
Lenny Kravitz
#56. My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
Zoe Kravitz
#57. I love shopping in New York just because you walk around and find a little store you've never saw before, and you're like, 'Oh what's that? This is my new favorite place.' I love that about New York.
Zoe Kravitz
#58. There's nothing more that we love than having a close, personal, open relationship, and I believe that's what God wants.
Lenny Kravitz
#59. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#60. God is love and if you are ready, he always is.
Lenny Kravitz
#61. I haven't thought about making a music film, but if I did, that would be a very interesting idea.
Lenny Kravitz
#62. One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.
Lenny Kravitz
#63. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#64. Keeping grounded and keeping focused and keeping calm and thankful, that comes from God.
Lenny Kravitz
#65. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#66. I don't go to church so much, the way my life is, but it's in me every day.
Lenny Kravitz
#67. There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.
Lenny Kravitz
#68. It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.
Lenny Kravitz
#69. I'm a big fan of, like, wearing old, vintage slips and stuff as outdoor wear. I got, like, a pair of these little silk bloomers. I think they were even, like, considered underwear in the '40s. I wore them as shorts the other day.
Zoe Kravitz
#70. Every night is different, you never know what it's going to be like. I remember every night. I don't like to compare them.
Lenny Kravitz
#71. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#72. I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.
Zoe Kravitz
#73. I stream this radio station, Radio Nova, that's based in Paris. They curate a beautiful set that's really all over the place - they'll play blues or some West African music, then A Tribe Called Quest, then funk from Ethiopia, then James Brown, and then the Beatles. It's an amazing mix.
Zoe Kravitz
#74. I'm a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting.
Zoe Kravitz
#75. I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
Zoe Kravitz
#76. I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.
Lenny Kravitz
#77. I feel like I'm only in the beginning of my career. I've only made five albums. It's not a lot.
Lenny Kravitz
#78. My mother's a ... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.
Zoe Kravitz
#79. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#81. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#82. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#83. When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life, and the things around you for your inspiration.
Lenny Kravitz
#84. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#85. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#87. Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.
Lenny Kravitz
#88. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#90. I would fly to Los Angeles just for a cheeseburger with pickles and extra tomatoes from In-N-Out.
Zoe Kravitz
#91. When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
Zoe Kravitz
#92. I'm always sort of reflecting on what I do on what I've done. Usually before I make a new album, I'll listen to the previous albums just to see where I've been.
Lenny Kravitz
#93. Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
Zoe Kravitz
#94. Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
Zoe Kravitz
#96. I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it.
Lenny Kravitz
#97. They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.
Lenny Kravitz
#98. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
#99. I don't know what the secret is. We're a family ... We all love each other ... and we've all worked through whatever issues there've ever been, and in a healthy way. So, we all get along. Love conquers all, I guess.
Zoe Kravitz
#100. 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.
Lenny Kravitz
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