Top 207 Quotes & Sayings by Lana Del Rey
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
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.
When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.
There's backlash about everything I do.
Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn't ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.
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.
I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
My dancing is Hawaiian-inspired but I also get a little fresh when it comes to my faster songs.
People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.
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.
Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
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.
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!
I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all.
A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.
I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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.
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.
I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.
Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.
When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.
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.
If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.
I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.
In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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.
I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.
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.
I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.
I'm a writer first and a singer second.
When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.
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.
I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.
I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.
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.
Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.
I didn't live at school, 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. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
My music is a luxury.
I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
A man`s ego is just as fragile as a woman`s heart
I am nostalgic of an era I never knew.
I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.
I only know how to do me, so that's just what I'm going to do.
Be Young, Be Dope,
Be Proud.
Life is beautiful, but you don't have a clue.
Be like snow - cold, but beautiful.
We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.
Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don't fail forever.
Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun.
They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.
when your happiness is someone else's happiness, that is love
No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do
I believe in the person I want to become.
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