Top 160 Lenny Kravitz Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I think that we have to be very careful and get back into the loop, get back to nature. Get back to God and not let the technology send us somewhere that we’re going to regret.”

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52. “I found it a really refreshing change of pace to suddenly be completely directed. It was a type of collaboration that I don’t normally have.”

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53. “I’m so happy. I am able to see the world just by making music, just by doing the thing that I loved doing when I was five years old.”

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

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55. “I do my best to try to keep God with me on a personal level. It’s my belief that God really wants a personal relationship with us.”

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56. “One day we’re going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we’re going to watch it on TV.”

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57. “If you heard my records and no one told you, I don’t think you’d know whether it’s a band or one guy.”

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58. “My mother passed at the end of the Circus tour. After that I really needed to take some time and just chill out and get my head together.”

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59. “I fell in love with Paris the first time I went.”

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60. “When you see a close person you know pass in front of your eyes, it’s hard core. After all that, I just wanted to enjoy every day. That was my goal. And to give thanks and to live fully.”

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61. “It doesn’t take a lot to get me motivated. I’m a studio rat. When I was in high school and I would walk into a recording studio, it felt like this magical place, this temple, this womb that I could escape into.”

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62. “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.”

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63. “You’ve got your entourage and people that help you make whatever happen around you. Everything’s crazy and you’re not paying attention to your inner feelings because you’re so busy. I couldn’t take it.”

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64. “I had no idea ‘The Hunger Games’ was so big. I didn’t even know the book. I had been living under my own rock.”

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65. “If I were white, I’d get less criticism.”

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66. “I get a lot of joy from playing instruments, and I have a different personality on each instrument. I like to let that come out. I get kind of selfish.”

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67. “Me being in my grandmother’s yard in Brooklyn. I must have been about 3. I had this red balloon. I let go of it, and it went up into the sky and just kept going and going. I completely flipped out, because I didn’t understand why.”

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68. “I don’t like to approach people that much. There’s been times when I wanted to say something to somebody, in a quick moment, but didn’t. Then you think, man, who knows?”

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69. “When I’m making my music, I’m writing it, I’m producing it, I’m playing all the instruments, I’m performing. It’s my own world where I do what I feel, and nobody tells me anything.”

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70. “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.”

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

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72. “I just live my life and try to be present. When I’m present in the moment and something comes, I can capture it, because it doesn’t come from me, it’s out there.”

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73. “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.”

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74. “People feel they have to live that stereotypical lifestyle in order to be a rock star. You don’t have to shoot heroin and act a certain way to be a rock and roll musician.”

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75. “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.”

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76. “I was always talking about peace and love, even when I was a kid. That’s how I grew up in my family.”

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77. “I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I’m not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.”

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

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79. “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.”

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80. “I’m looking forward to going out at the concert with a clear head, with a clear mind, with a clear spirit and experiencing whatever it is. It’s great.”

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81. “I’m really happy about American Woman, it brought the Guess Who back. They started gigging again and got their song out on commercials.”

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82. “Later on in life I was like, “Wow!” because that’s exactly how it was. They don’t care that you’re mixed. They see you as one color.”

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83. “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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84. “I get hired as a writer or producer and I do the best I can to bring out that artist. If somebody calls you to do something, you go right for that vision and you’re aware of that person’s vibe. You’re trying to get inside of them.”

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85. “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.”

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86. “The image is an image.”

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87. “Things that would shock us years ago are like nothing now.”

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88. “Tape machines are effects boxes as well because each tape machine has its own sound. You can over-load a tape machine or you can bump it a certain way so it compresses or makes a sound, tape saturation.”

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89. “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.”

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90. “There’s nothing more that we love than having a close, personal, open relationship, and I believe that’s what God wants.”

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91. “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.”

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92. “It’s a trip to have a Greatest Hits record. It’s a trip.”

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93. “I’m definitely happy with everything I’ve done. I stand behind it. You’ll always be saying, “Well, I could change that, or I would do that differently.” But you have to let it be what it is.”

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94. “I wouldn’t play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.”

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95. “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.”

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96. “It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.”

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97. “A lot of my songs deal with spirituality and God, and I guess if you’re in tune with that, you’ll read into it.”

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98. “There’s definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it’s modern.”

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99. “I enjoy what people at the concert give me and I can’t do it without them, so it’s really an exchange of energy that snowballs back and forth and becomes something that’s very satisfying and very magical.”

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

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