Lenny Kravitz Quotes

"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."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: People, Artist, Fun, Labor)

"Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised."
- Lenny Kravitz

"My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Mother, Advice)

"My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: First, Guitar, Jazz)

"My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Dream)

"My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Career, Longevity, Reason)

"Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Music, Life, Reflection)

"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."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Life, People, Song)

"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
(Related: Music, Dream, Spain, Years)

"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
(Related: Artist, Being, Growing up, Pretty)

"It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Music, Hearing)

"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
(Related: Old)

"It's very important to vote. People died for this right."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: People, Right, Vote)

"The image is an image."
- Lenny Kravitz

"If I were white, I'd get less criticism."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Criticism)

"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
(Related: Loyalty)

"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
(Related: Love, Song)

"There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Faith, People)

"There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Music, Old, School)

"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
(Related: Being)

"Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: People, Glamour, Today)

"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
(Related: Being, Energy, State)

"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."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Computers, Technology, Being, Day, Kids)

"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."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Open)

"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: People)

"You're never promised your next breath."
- Lenny Kravitz

"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."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Idea, Vision, Opinion, Public)

"I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Time)

"God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: God, Life)

"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
(Related: Change, God, Trying, World)

"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."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: People, Growing up)

"I am trying to get closer to God."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: God, Trying)

"I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Idea, Open)

"I don't play the tuba."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Play)

"I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Songs)

"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
(Related: Beginning, Career)

"I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Time)

"I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Women)

"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: People, Answers)

"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
(Related: Now, Pretty, School)

"I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Life)

"I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together."
- Lenny Kravitz

"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."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Time, Artists, Now, Years)

"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."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Dreams, Listening, Song)

"I've had to work very hard, and I don't really have a category or fit into any niche, so each time I come out with a new record, it's like, I'm a new guy."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Time, Work)

"I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself."
- Lenny Kravitz

"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
(Related: Play)

"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."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Writing)

"I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Life, Music)

"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?"
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Music, Funny, Dress, Play)

"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

"I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Control, Play)

"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
(Related: Driving, states, Study, Waiting)

"I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Mind, Reality)

"I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it."
- Lenny Kravitz

"I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Artists)

"A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Dad, Time, First)

"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
(Related: Years)

"God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: God, Love)

"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
(Related: Night)

"Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: People, Confusion)

"Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Change, Growth, Rebirth, Spiritual)

"A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: People, Pretty)

"A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: People)

"God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: God, Play)