Lenny Kravitz famous quotes

Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Creativity #Positivity #Opportunity

One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Musician #Inspired

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

#Energy #Miserable #States

I don't go to church so much, the way my life is, but it's in me every day.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Church

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

#Beautiful #Offering #Trying

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.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Guy #Singing #Looks

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#New Orleans #People #Culture

I’ll be quite frank with you — I didn’t know about Hunger Games — so when I’m telling kids and they say, ‘Who are you playing?’ and I say Cinna, they go, ‘Oh you’re playing the gay guy.’ That was an actual answer. I’ve never brought that up yet. That’s how they perceived it. So I thought about it, and I read the book and I don’t see that he is or isn’t [gay]. He’s a designer, he’s a stylist, he has gold eyeliner—that doesn’t mean anything either way.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Book #Mean #Kids

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

#Dream #Sweet #Guy

None of those material possessions do anything to make your life any better.... I know a lot of people who have a lot of everything, and they're absolutely the most miserable people in the world. So it won't do anything for you unless you're a happy person and can have peace with yourself.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Gratitude #People #World

Being free is a state of mind.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Mind #Being Free #Politics

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.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Music #Ideas #Conform

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.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Positive #Inspiring #Mom

I always read the Capitol as f—ked up pansexuality, everybody is doing everybody. Back to Greek and Roman times! It’s all happening.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Greek #Keds

I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Band #Stage #Wells

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

#Records #Heavy #Groove

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

#Kids #Cutting #Records

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

#Car #Radio #Hearing

We've always just gotten up there and played. We don't have any dancers, we don't have all that stuff going on, we just get up there and play.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Play #Dancer #Stuff

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

#Dream #Couple #Years

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

#Spiritual #Growth #Musical

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

#Mean #Together #Notes

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

#Reflection #Music Is My Life #Music Is

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

#People #Political #Important

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

#People #Confusion #Fingers

I want to get away, I want to fly away. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Fly Away #Get Away

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

#Artist #Shows

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

#Reality #Mind #Grandfather

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

#Needs

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

#Mother #Advice #Realizing

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 don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs...A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really. A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Song #Writing #Thinking

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

#People

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

#Dad #Father #Firsts

If I were white, I'd get less criticism.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#White #Criticism

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

#People #Realizing

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

#Lost Love #Lost

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

#Play #Guy #Drug

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

#Real #Thinking #Records

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

#Careers #Albums #Made

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

#Song #Writing #Thinking

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

#Years #Crowds #Lasts

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

#People #Chorus

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

#Night #Different #Remember

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

#Play #Able #Instruments

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

#Kids #Technology #Faces

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

#Loyalty #Next #Yeah

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

#Guitar #Firsts #Jazz

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Diaries #Records #Made

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

#Dream #Song #Listening

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

#Thinking #Serious #Clown

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

#Ideas #Vision #Opinion

The image is an image.
-- Lenny Kravitz

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

#Beauty #School #Kids

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

#Play #Together #Likes

So that's why you've got to try, you got to breath and have some fun. Though I'm not paid, I play this game, and I won't stop until I'm done. But what I really want to know is - Are you gonna go my way?
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Travel #Fun #Games

Jimi Hendrix was just so fluid. His hands were connected to his soul, you know? His playing was just so emotional. You could feel the fire, you could feel the blues. You could feel the sadness. It's unbelievable.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Sadness #Emotional #Fire

When I hear music, it’s visual; I see things,
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Visuals

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

#Writing #Waiting #Moved

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.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Vision #Acting #Directors

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

#Wanted

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

#Growing Up #Artist #Cities

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

#Believe #People #Have Faith

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

#Song #People #Bigs

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

#Ideas #Next #Causes

I am trying to get closer to God.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Trying

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

#Growing Up #People #Fans

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.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Thinking #People #Trying

My life is perfect because I accept it as it is.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Philosophy #Perfect #Life Is

(On being asked if he preferred to be a rock god or sex god) I am neither. My favourite role is father.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Sex #Father #Rocks

God is love and if you are ready, he always is.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Religious #Religion #God Is Love

Eleutheria, the fire is burning. Eleutheria, the tables are turning.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Fire #Burning #Tables

When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life, and the things around you for your inspiration.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Song #Inspiration #Writing

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

#Fun #Thinking #Artist

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

#Artist #Years #Long

Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Interesting #African American #President

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

#Next

There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#School #Thinking #Elements

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.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Funny #Book #Games

Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Country #Race #Elephants

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

#Song #Simple #Speak

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

#Important

Where I'm at in life, the women have got to come with something else, not just the body, but the mind and spirit. It usually trips them out, but that's the way it's going to be. I'm looking at the big picture.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Mind #Body #Way

It's a trip to have a Greatest Hits record. It's a trip.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Journey #Records

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

#Waiting #Different #Records

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

#Funny #Witty #Strong

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.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Lonely #Thinking #Rock And Roll

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

#Guy #Records #Niche

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

#Funny #Play #Style

I mean, look at the people we celebrate - a lot of people who really don't do anything. They just walk the red carpets and go to all the parties, and they're hooked up with the right people, so they're celebrities. But what for?
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Party #Mean #People

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

#People #Giving #Different

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

#Albums #Done #Reflecting

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

#Oasis #Stuff

My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Thinking #Careers #Hiking

I don't play the tuba.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Play #Tubas

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.
-- Lenny Kravitz

#Rock And Roll #Play #Bed

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

#People #Records #Today