Top 202 Quotes & Sayings by Lenny Kravitz
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Lenny Kravitz.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.
Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.
I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.
Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.
The thing I love about acting is that it's got nothing to do with me; it's about bringing forth a director's vision. It's like a release. I'm glad it's come back into my life.
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.
I'm more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat.
I feel like I'm only in the beginning of my career. I've only made five albums. It's not a lot.
There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.
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.
If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.
I am trying to get closer to God.
I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.
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.
I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I can't really describe writing. It's in my head.
God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.
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.
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.
God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept.
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.
My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.
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?
My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.
If I were white, I'd get less criticism.
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.
I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.
A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.
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.
A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.
God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.
My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.
I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.
It's very important to vote. People died for this right.
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.
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.
I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.
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.
My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.
I don't play the tuba.
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.
I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.
You're never promised your next breath.
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.
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.
You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.
I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.
That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.
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.
I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.
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.
I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.
I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.
It's a trip to have a Greatest Hits record. It's a trip.
It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.
Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.
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.
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.
I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.
I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.
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