Top 100 Lenny 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.
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#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.
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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. 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.
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#16. 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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#17. I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.
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#18. 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.
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#19. 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.
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#20. 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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#21. 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.
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#22. 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.
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#23. 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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#24. Nine out of ten groups that came out in '89 are gone. I'm still here.
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#25. There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.
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#26. You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.
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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.
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#31. I want to get away, I want to fly away. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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#32. 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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#33. 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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#35. 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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#36. We should take time out to really love; we should take time out to find out who we are.
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#37. 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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#38. 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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#39. Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.
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#40. 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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#41. 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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#42. God is love and if you are ready, he always is.
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#43. I haven't thought about making a music film, but if I did, that would be a very interesting idea.
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#44. One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.
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#45. 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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#46. Keeping grounded and keeping focused and keeping calm and thankful, that comes from God.
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#47. 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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#48. I don't go to church so much, the way my life is, but it's in me every day.
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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. 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.
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#52. 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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#53. I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.
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#54. 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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#55. 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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#57. 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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#58. 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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#59. 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.
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#60. 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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#61. 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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#63. Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.
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#64. 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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#65. 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.
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#67. I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it.
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#68. 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.
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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. I find cooking to be the one thing that relaxes me. I don't get to do it often ...
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#72. Jimi Hendrix was just so fluid. His hands were connected to his soul, you know? His playing was just so emotional. You could feel the fire, you could feel the blues. You could feel the sadness. It's unbelievable.
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#73. 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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#74. I'm just as white as I am black, and I'm just as Russian Jew as I am West Indian.
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#75. 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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#76. Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.
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#77. 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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#78. 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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#79. I'm just looking for interesting roles and giving acting the respect it deserves.
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#80. Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.
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#81. We're beginning to play God and get into cloning. We give up quickly. Divorce is an easy option. So why not just create your own mate? Synthesize a human being. You get tired of it, turn it off and put it in the closet like the vacuum cleaner.
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#82. 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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#83. 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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#84. The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs.
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#85. I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.
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#86. 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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#87. I didn't really listen to rock 'n' roll until I moved to LA. We would ditch school, go get high, put on Zeppelin IV and just bug out.
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#88. 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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#89. I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.
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#90. 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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#91. 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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#92. I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life.
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#93. 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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#94. It doesn't take a lot to get me motivated. I'm a studio rat. When I was in high school and I would walk into a recording studio, it felt like this magical place, this temple, this womb that I could escape into.
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#95. 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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#96. If you heard my records and no one told you, I don't think you'd know whether it's a band or one guy.
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#97. I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.
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#99. 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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#100. I'm experiencing the mood to go out and share the music. I don't look at these concerts as a platform for people to watch me, look at me. No, a tour is about an interaction. A thing, myself, a band, and the people who support what I do and enjoy what I do.
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