Lenny Kravitz Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Lenny Kravitz
Lenny Kravitz Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
I wanted to make something that sounded very pure, organic, and personal. I wanted to make music that was timeless.
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.
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.
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 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.
I'm sure great scripts are hard to find, but I'm definitely open, and waiting to see what comes my way.
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.
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.
I always read the Capitol as f - ked up pansexuality, everybody is doing everybody. Back to Greek and Roman times! It's all happening.
There's nothing more that we love than having a close, personal, open relationship, and I believe that's what God wants.
I'm not one of those artists who refuses to play their hits. I find that ridiculous. Hits are a blessing.
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.
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.
(On being asked if he preferred to be a rock god or sex god) I am neither. My favourite role is father.
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.
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.
My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it.
I do my best to try to keep God with me on a personal level. It's my belief that God really wants a personal relationship with us.
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.
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.
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.
One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.
I'm looking forward to going out at the concert with a clear head, with a clear mind, with a clear spirit and experiencing whatever it is. It's great.
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.
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.
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.
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 had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock.
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 ...
I'm really happy about American Woman, it brought the Guess Who back. They started gigging again and got their song out on commercials.
I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.
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.
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.
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.
I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.
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.
Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.
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.
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.
I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.
There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.
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.
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."
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.
It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.