Lenny Kravitz Quotes
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. It's a trip to have a Greatest Hits record. It's a trip. It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music. It's very important to vote. People died for this right. Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through. My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity. My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner. My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe. My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true. Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised. 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. 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. 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. The image is an image. 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. 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. 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. There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith. There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.
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