Top 150 Annie Lennox Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “You have a bigger view, of something bigger than you, and you have to view that and take that in mind. At times you feel like despair rises up over hope, then other times you feel hopeful again.”

— Annie Lennox

52. “When you go to Africa, and you see children, they’re usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they’d love to go to school.”

— Annie Lennox

53. “Success breeds the excitement to continue going.”

— Annie Lennox

54. “I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.”

— Annie Lennox

55. “Fashion is temporary; fashion is a race. What it’s doing is giving you something that you say, “This is the outer wrapping of me.” Style is something else. It’s not quantifiable. Fashion is about selling. Fashion is about what’s in. Style is independent of that; style is individual.”

— Annie Lennox

56. “We all come from women, and there’s something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.”

— Annie Lennox

57. “Twerking is not feminism. Thats what I’m referring to. It’s not – it’s not liberating, it’s not empowering. It’s a sexual thing that you’re doing on a stage; it doesn’t empower you. That’s my feeling about it.”

— Annie Lennox

58. “I’m not particularly attention-seeking.”

— Annie Lennox

59. “It’s hard to tell how far women’s individuality has come in the past twenty years.”

— Annie Lennox

60. “If one woman is suffering, then we are all suffering, and we need to put a voice to that.”

— Annie Lennox

61. “I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.”

— Annie Lennox

62. “If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances – you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist.”

— Annie Lennox

63. “I don’t take myself as seriously as some people think, and I’d hate anyone to think I was preaching. That’s the last thing I want.”

— Annie Lennox

64. “It’s a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you’ve got to set an example, when you’re not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don’t know what is appropriate anymore.”

— Annie Lennox

65. “I’m a female but I have a masculine side and I’m not going to negate that part of myself.”

— Annie Lennox

66. “As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.”

— Annie Lennox

67. “I have different hats; I’m a mother, I’m a woman, I’m a human being, I’m an artist and hopefully I’m an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.”

— Annie Lennox

68. “Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.”

— Annie Lennox

69. “I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.”

— Annie Lennox

70. “Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.”

— Annie Lennox

71. “I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.”

— Annie Lennox

72. “For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn’t the art of photography but I don’t agree.”

— Annie Lennox

73. “Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.”

— Annie Lennox

74. “I have always felt a little homeless. It’s a strange thing.”

— Annie Lennox

75. “I’m not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.”

— Annie Lennox

76. “You can live with almost any condition if you’re living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.”

— Annie Lennox

77. “I’m from a working-class background, and I’ve experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.”

— Annie Lennox

78. “Those in the developing world have so few rights – we take a lot for granted in the developed world.”

— Annie Lennox

79. “Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring – a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him.”

— Annie Lennox

80. “The dynamic between two individuals starts off with everything warm and nice and fabulous and good. Working and living together can serve you quite well, but when it starts to go wrong – oh, boy!”

— Annie Lennox

81. “There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.”

— Annie Lennox

82. “In a sense, the music business and I haven’t always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you’re hoping you’ll find someone who’ll help you get your work into the world.”

— Annie Lennox

83. “The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.”

— Annie Lennox

84. “I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It’s a projection. It’s illusory.”

— Annie Lennox

85. “I didn’t want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.”

— Annie Lennox

86. “Money is a good thing and it’s obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.”

— Annie Lennox

87. “What’s really interesting is when you get a brand-new wave that has no connection to anything else. It always reflects society. The flappers would cut the dresses and make them looser, they smoked, their hair was short. It was a rebellion against the corset and the Edwardian era.”

— Annie Lennox

88. “The inner world is very potent for me – I don’t ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha – I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.”

— Annie Lennox

89. “If you want to open a supermarket chain and put your face all around the globe, selling your baby and your dog, if it makes you happy, who am I to disagree, as the song goes. But it’s not for me. I’ve always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.”

— Annie Lennox

90. “I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can’t speak on their behalf.”

— Annie Lennox

91. “Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won’t be ended overnight. That is why if, like me, you want to see an end to poverty, you need to be in it for the long haul.”

— Annie Lennox

92. “It was very easy for me to dedicate myself to the care of mothers, help them have healthy babies, help them be healthy, help them in a place where they don’t have opportunities. Success breeds the excitement to continue going. It’s harder to get out of bed when you’ve failed.”

— Annie Lennox

93. “I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.”

— Annie Lennox

94. “It’s not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.”

— Annie Lennox

95. “Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.”

— Annie Lennox

96. “If we value what we’ve inherited for free – from other women – surely it’s right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, ‘I’m a feminist. ’”

— Annie Lennox

97. “I don’t have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.”

— Annie Lennox

98. “I watch ‘Mad Men,’ I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.”

— Annie Lennox

99. “I’m not intensely private – I talk a great deal about my life and my work – I just don’t play the game to excess.”

— Annie Lennox

100. “The poetic side of me is Scottish.”

— Annie Lennox