Lenny Kravitz Quotes
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A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.
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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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My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
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God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.
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I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.
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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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God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.
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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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I don't play the tuba.
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Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.
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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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A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.
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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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God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept.
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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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You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.
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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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A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.
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There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.
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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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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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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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The image is an image.
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Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.