Words matter. These are the best Lenny Kravitz Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.
I’m in this for the long haul. I’ve been making music my whole life.
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.
I couldn’t tell you what I am going to do next ’cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.
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.
It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.
Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can’t put their finger on me.
I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.
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.
There’s definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it’s modern.
My career has been a gradual climb. I think that’s part of the reason why I’ve had longevity.
A lot of people don’t listen to the lyrics, really.
There are so many people that don’t believe in themselves and don’t have faith.
God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.
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.
It’s a trip to have a Greatest Hits record. It’s a trip.
The image is an image.
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.
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?
Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don’t even read the inside of records anymore.
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.
I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It’s a reality.
I am trying to get closer to God.
My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.
Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.
You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don’t realize what it’s really like.
God forbid you sing about love. It’s a lost concept.
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.
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.
It’s like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.
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.
I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.
God is always in my life, and that’s the most important thing to me.
My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
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.
If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.
Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.
I wouldn’t play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.
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.
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.
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 think it’d be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that’s it.
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.
I’ve been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I’m not any one thing at all.
