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Lenny Kravitz
American
Musician
About the author
It's a trip to have a Greatest Hits record. It's a trip.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
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.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#People
#Fun
#Labor
#Artist
Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Mother
#Advice
My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#First
#Jazz
#Guitar
My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Dream
My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Longevity
#Career
#Reason
Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Life
#Music
#Reflection
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.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Life
#People
#Song
It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Years
#Music
#Dream
#Spain
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.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Being
#Pretty
#Artist
#Growing up
It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Music
#Hearing
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.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Old
It's very important to vote. People died for this right.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Right
#People
#Vote
The image is an image.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
If I were white, I'd get less criticism.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Criticism
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.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Loyalty
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.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Love
#Song
There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#People
#Faith
There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Old
#School
#Music
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.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Being
Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#People
#Today
#Glamour
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.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Being
#State
#Energy
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.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Kids
#Day
#Technology
#Being
#Computers
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.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Open
You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#People
You're never promised your next breath.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
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.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Public
#Vision
#Idea
#Opinion
I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Time
God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Life
#God
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.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#God
#World
#Trying
#Change
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.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#People
#Growing up
I am trying to get closer to God.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#God
#Trying
I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Idea
#Open
I don't play the tuba.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Play
I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Songs
I feel like I'm only in the beginning of my career. I've only made five albums. It's not a lot.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Career
#Beginning
I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Time
I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Women
If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#People
#Answers
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.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Now
#Pretty
#School
I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Life
I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
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.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Time
#Now
#Years
#Artists
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.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Dreams
#Song
#Listening
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.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Time
#Work
I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Play
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.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Writing
I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Life
#Music
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?
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Play
#Music
#Dress
#Funny
I'm always sort of reflecting on what I do on what I've done. Usually before I make a new album, I'll listen to the previous albums just to see where I've been.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Play
#Control
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.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Study
#states
#Waiting
#Driving
I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Mind
#Reality
I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Artists
A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Time
#First
#Dad
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.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Years
God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Love
#God
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.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Night
Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#People
#Confusion
Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#Growth
#Change
#Spiritual
#Rebirth
A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#People
#Pretty
A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#People
God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.
Lenny Kravitz,
American
Musician
#God
#Play