Top 160 Lenny Kravitz Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Love is the most powerful energy there is.”

— Lenny Kravitz

2. “I want to get away, I want to fly away. Yeah, yeah, yeah.”

— Lenny Kravitz

3. “Love, creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.”

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4. “Being free is a state of mind.”

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5. “I don’t play the tuba.”

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6. “It’s very important to vote. People died for this right.”

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7. “We have so many distractions. We’re losing the family unit. We’re losing the one-on-one. We’re becoming extremely narcissistic. And we have to be careful about that. There’s a lot to deal with out there.”

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8. “My life is perfect because I accept it as it is.”

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9. “I am trying to get closer to God.”

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10. “We’re beginning to play God and get into cloning. We give up quickly. Divorce is an easy option. So why not just create your own mate? Synthesize a human being. You get tired of it, turn it off and put it in the closet like the vacuum cleaner.”

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11. “Keeping grounded and keeping focused and keeping calm and thankful, that comes from God.”

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

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

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

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

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16. “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.”

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17. “Personal relationship with God is not all just the ceremony and not the religion of doing something because you were told that’s what you have to do; it’s relationships, it’s like we have relationships with our families, with our friends, with our loved ones.”

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18. “God is always in my life, and that’s the most important thing to me.”

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

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20. “I’ve always had to deal with being biracial, even in music. When I came on the scene, I’d go to these record labels, and they’d say things like, “Lenny Kravitz. That’s a weird name.” I’m brown-skinned and I’ve got these dreadlocks and I’ve got this Jewish last name.”

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21. “Eleutheria, the fire is burning. Eleutheria, the tables are turning.”

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22. “God is love and if you are ready, he always is.”

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23. “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.”

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24. “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.”

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25. “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.”

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

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27. “You’re never promised your next breath.”

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28. “Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.”

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29. “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.”

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

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31. “You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don’t realize what it’s really like.”

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

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33. “Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It’s all about me – as it should be.”

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34. “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.”

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35. “There’s certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.”

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36. “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.”

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37. “The way I was raised and the people that I grew up around for the most part were very humble people, and I appreciate all that they taught me, and their energy and their magnanimity help keep me grounded.”

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38. “At first people thought I was really arrogant and a snob about music because I’m so intense about my production and sound, and because they knew I didn’t like new music so much.”

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39. “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.”

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

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41. “After listening to “Machine Gun” I have to take a nap.”

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42. “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.”

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43. “Mothers love you to the end, and she didn’t want to hold me back from my livelihood. So I left for a month and called her every couple of days. I came home and she died 24 hours later.”

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44. “I basically camped out for a year and a half in an Airstream trailer on the beach out in front of the studio. I had no idea what I was gonna do, what kind of album I was gonna make – all I knew was that I wanted to sit there and just take in whatever came.”

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45. “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?”

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46. “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.”

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47. “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.”

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

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49. “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.”

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50. “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?”

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