315 Quotes by Lenny Kravitz

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.

You never know where you're going to find a great actor.

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.

God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.

Tape machines are effects boxes as well because each tape machine has its own sound. You can over-load a tape machine or you can bump it a certain way so it compresses or makes a sound, tape saturation.

I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.

I was watching an interview with Martin Scorcese concerning Raging Bull, which is one of my favorite films, and he was talking about how he'd worked with a lot of guys who weren't quote-unquote "actors," like Joe Pesce and Frank Vincent. Scorcese was very smart in the way that he cast, because you don't know where you're going to find the right person who can carry a role and summon that emotion you're looking for.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

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.