Top 160 Lenny Kravitz Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I wouldn’t play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.”

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102. “What motivates it is life. Life is everything. Life influences my music and brings it forth. Life is always changing, so I’m always hearing new music.”

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103. “I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.”

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

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105. “Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can’t put their finger on me.”

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106. “When it comes to acting, it’s about creating a character and bringing forth a director’s vision. It’s a weird feeling, because with acting, it’s just not about me. I love being in that position, because with the music, it’s always about me.”

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107. “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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108. “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.”

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109. “I feel like I’m only in the beginning of my career. I’ve only made five albums. It’s not a lot.”

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110. “I started out making furniture because I couldn’t find certain things, and then I really got into it.”

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111. “I wanted to make something that sounded very pure, organic, and personal. I wanted to make music that was timeless.”

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112. “I’m experiencing the mood to go out and share the music. I don’t look at these concerts as a platform for people to watch me, look at me. No, a tour is about an interaction. A thing, myself, a band, and the people who support what I do and enjoy what I do.”

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113. “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.”

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114. “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.”

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115. “One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it’s yours.”

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116. “I went to Paris in 1989 when the Americans didn’t quite know what to do with me at first. Now, all those years later, it’s kind of the same story. Not the same scenario, but kind of the same story.”

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117. “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.”

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118. “You need to open up so that more comes through. And you can just feel that when your ego is not in the way and when you’re letting it be what it wants to be. You have to let it be what it wants to be as opposed to what you think it should be.”

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119. “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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120. “I think kids in Europe have developed a deeper knowledge of music and of black music in particular. You go to Europe, and these kids know about all this obscure funk and soul that kids over here wouldn’t know. I think it’s getting better in the States, though, with the age of the Internet.”

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121. “God said, Here. Have it. Enjoy it. I’m gonna be miserable?”

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122. “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.”

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

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124. “I honestly don’t remember how I wrote or did the songs. Or the sessions. They all become very much a blur. And each album is like that. It may be that there are different locations, it may take longer, shorter, or whatever, but it’s always something that just happened.”

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

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126. “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.”

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127. “My mom and dad would take me all over. One night we’d be at the Apollo watching James Brown, and then I’d be at the Joffrey Ballet. It was that kind of scene.”

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128. “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.”

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129. “It’s a good time for me to pursue acting, I suppose since I’m enjoying having another medium in which to express myself. I’ve been getting a great response to my work.”

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130. “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.”

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131. “I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.”

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132. “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?”

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133. “A lot of people don’t listen to the lyrics, really.”

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134. “I never sit down to write or say, “Today, I have to record something.” I wait to hear it and then I go for it.”

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

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136. “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.”

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137. “I’m just looking for interesting roles and giving acting the respect it deserves.”

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138. “I don’t go to church so much, the way my life is, but it’s in me every day.”

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139. “I feel like my best work is in front of me. I’m in the studio now, and I’m having an amazing time making this new album. It’s something I can’t help.”

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140. “I’m sure great scripts are hard to find, but I’m definitely open, and waiting to see what comes my way.”

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141. “Eventually you’re going to have a digital transfer anyway when you make a CD, so it doesn’t matter as long as what you’re hitting first is what you want it to be.”

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142. “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.”

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143. “Nine out of ten groups that came out in ’89 are gone. I’m still here.”

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144. “I used to do plays and some television commercials when I was younger. I guess my mom’s being an actress got me interested in that, but music definitely took its place.”

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145. “We should take time out to really love; we should take time out to find out who we are.”

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146. “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.”

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147. “Let’s look at human interactions. I really believe that there is a way for us to settle disputes nonviolently, using our minds, using all of that was given to us.”

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148. “God forbid you sing about love. It’s a lost concept.”

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149. “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.”

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150. “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.”

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