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Lenny Kravitz Quotes About Music

It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.

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 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.

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.

I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life.

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?

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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I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.

My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.

I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.

I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.

Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.

God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.

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.

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.

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

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

You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.

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

There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.

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.

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.

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.

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.

God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.

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.

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.

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.

If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.

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.

It's a trip to have a Greatest Hits record. It's a trip.

It's very important to vote. People died for this right.

A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.

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.

A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.

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 couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.

If I were white, I'd get less criticism.

I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.

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

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.

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.

I am trying to get closer to God.

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 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.

You're never promised your next breath.

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 don't play the tuba.

I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5.

The image is an image.

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.

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