Lenny Quotes & Sayings

TV is just advertising for your live gig, so I'm playing whichever show is gonna get me the biggest crowd. — Lenny Bruce

My folks were country music performers. They made records and even did a few tours with the Grand Ole Opry. There always were a lot of guitarists around. — Lenny Breau

Although I was really interested in physics, I think I wanted to do it because I thought it was really hard. I did theoretical physics. — Lenny Abrahamson

My life is perfect because I accept it as it is. — Lenny Kravitz

I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce. — Lenny Bruce

As with any actor and any collaborator, it's about forming a trusting relationship. And that's not that you have to get him to trust you so you can get him to do what you want. Especially with a little kid, it's about making them feel really safe, and getting to know and not treating them as a puppet to be moved around. — Lenny Abrahamson

People say that soundstage sets never quite look like reality. But actually, they can. They can be as real as you want as long as you pay attention to the kind of detail that is given for free in a real place. — Lenny Abrahamson

I do my best to try to keep God with me on a personal level. It's my belief that God really wants a personal relationship with us. — Lenny Kravitz

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? — Lenny Kravitz

Something I've learned from people like U2, the Stones and Lenny Kravitz is that the grind of live shows is so necessary [to build your career]. — Alicia Keys

Communism is like one big phone company. — Lenny Bruce

I'll always be a student, because I think of music as never ending. — Lenny Breau

Once the country was settled and built, the bosses changed the order from a stack of educated workers to a barrel of minimum wage lottery dreamers. — Lenny Bruce

When you're eight years old nothing is your business. — Lenny Bruce

The most conventional romantic trope of all is that you put lovers under extreme pressure, where they have to make decisions that illuminate aspects of that bond. — Lenny Abrahamson

I fell in love with Paris the first time I went. — Lenny Kravitz

What I'm trying to do is make impressions. I think of myself as a colourist, adding different colours and shades by using different techniques and touching the guitar in different ways. I'd like to play sounds you can see if you've got your eyes closed. — Lenny Breau

A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really. — Lenny Kravitz

I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me. — Lenny Kravitz

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

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. — Lenny Bruce

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

I'm experiencing the mood to go out and share the music. I don't look at these concerts as a platform for people to watch me, look at me. No, a tour is about an interaction. A thing, myself, a band, and the people who support what I do and enjoy what I do. — Lenny Kravitz

I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it. — Lenny Kravitz

A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus. — Lenny Kravitz

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

When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race. — Paul Mooney

I'm so happy. I am able to see the world just by making music, just by doing the thing that I loved doing when I was five years old. — Lenny Kravitz

When earth gets good and crowded, like 15th century England, then some new Pilgrims are gonna rocket their Mayflowers to a new solar system. — Lenny Bruce

I can just remember being broke, wondering if I had any talent - really wondering whether this was all a fantasy - but I had to get out there and keep trying. — Lenny Abrahamson

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

I'm very much about the environment, I'm very much about health, about being able to, at the very least, eat organic, whole foods that are healthy for us. And then, of course, everyone being able to eat and at least have a humane way to live. There's enough for everybody, but unfortunately, there's a lot of greed and a lot of ego. — Lenny Kravitz

Anyone who has two shirts when someone has none is not a christian. — Lenny Bruce

Being free is a state of mind. — Lenny Kravitz

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

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

Established actors will challenge you if they don't agree with the way you are taking it, and you have to argue it. But with a younger cast, they are more likely to wonder whether what they are doing is okay instead of trying to second guess the director. That helps push you. — Lenny Abrahamson

Marijuana will be legal some day, because the many law students who now smoke pot will someday become congressmen and legalize it in order to protect themselves. — Lenny Bruce

I've lived my life dealing with everybody. And that's how it's always been for me. — Lenny Kravitz

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. — Lenny Bruce

You're never promised your next breath. — Lenny Kravitz

I plan to join the 'SNL' band as a maraca player and stand behind saxophonist Lenny Pickett. That way they will at least cut to me before commercial breaks. I'll be sure to look right into camera. — John Mulaney

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

I was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music ... the art ... whatever ... And I kind of went with that. — Lenny Kravitz

I'm just looking for interesting roles and giving acting the respect it deserves. — Lenny Kravitz

There are no dirty words, only dirty minds. — Lenny Bruce

My idea as far as comedy goes has always been to push the limits of what's acceptable for a woman to do or say or be. My hero in that would be Lenny Bruce, who teaches us that words have no meaning. It's the intent behind them that is what's important. — Lea DeLaria

I know that it's axiomatic in the film industry that you're not supposed to let the novelist develop their own story. Well, first of all, that's kind of up to the novelist - because they don't have to sell it. But also, I don't believe it. It's about trust. — Lenny Abrahamson

I would become a priest or a rabbi or a monk or whatever the hell was necessary to perform miracles such as taking money from someone else's pocket and putting it into mine, still remaining within the confines of the law. — Lenny Bruce

I've been to Africa many times in the past 20 years, but I can't believe this is the first time since the very first Red Nose Day, that I've been back to Ethiopia. The last time I was here was just after the famine and it was crazy, there were people all over the place, kids without families, aid workers, camera crews. — Lenny Henry

I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality. — Lenny Kravitz

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

One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours. — Lenny Kravitz

I wanted out of the navy so bad in '45, I faked homo to get a discharge. It didn't matter that the Germans surrendered, I knew we were heading to Japan and I was done with that scene. — Lenny Bruce

Life, the moment. Where the magic is. That's what really keeps me motivated, alive, hungry. I'm still as excited and motivated now as I was twenty-five years ago, and that's because I really live for those moments. And that's where the art comes from, that's where the music is born, that's where it all appears. I love it. — Lenny Kravitz

You can't just run out and start the car until some cat invents a car. — Lenny Bruce

It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by doing the stuff that he believed in. — Joe Rogan

What motivates it is life. Life is everything. Life influences my music and brings it forth. Life is always changing, so I'm always hearing new music. — Lenny Kravitz

There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie. — Lenny Bruce

That's where depression hits you most - your home life. It doesn't affect your work. I can't do this zany, wacky, funny thing any more. I haven't been like that for a long time. — Lenny Henry

Only a psychological freak could approach a 100-mph fastball aimed not all that far from his head with total confidence. "Lenny — Michael Lewis

If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone. — Lenny Bruce

(On his addiction to opiods): I'll die young, but it's like kissing God. — Lenny Bruce

Most of the preparedness happens during training every single day, so it's all about getting to a meet and being as relaxed as possible. Personally, I just try to stay in the crowd of people, just talking so my mind doesn't think only about swimming. That helps me to relax. And at this level, we all know what needs to be done once we jump in the pool — Lenny Krayzelburg

I don't play the tuba. — Lenny Kravitz

Let me tell you the truth: The truth is what is. And what should be is a fantasy a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago. — Lenny Bruce

I went to Poland for the Warsaw Film Festival, and it was quite an intense experience. I didn't think it would be, but it did feel quite emotional to go back to this place I'd heard so much about. — Lenny Abrahamson

If you want it, you've got to give it. — Lenny Wilkens

When you're shooting, there's terrible pressure, and you never switch off. Every day is like the day before an exam; it's relentless. — Lenny Abrahamson

I don't go to church so much, the way my life is, but it's in me every day. — Lenny Kravitz

I don't sing. I played guitar for a while. I'm not great, I'm not Lenny Kravitz by any means, but I do like to strum. — Liam Hemsworth

Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell. — Lenny Bruce

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. — Lenny Kravitz

The process of shooting - of choosing shots - is intuitive for me, and I just feel my way towards what seems right. — Lenny Abrahamson

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it. — Lenny Bruce

Part of the kick of making people laugh was doing something different. We were a rare breed - spotting one of us was like pinning a space alien, or abdominal snowman. There were maybe a hundred stand-ups in the whole country when I was doing it. — Lenny Bruce

My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. — Lenny Bruce

My mother's side of the family is from the Bahamas, and I spent time there on and off when I was growing up. It's the place where I feel at peace. — Lenny Kravitz

When I'm in the studio, I write the music, I play the different instruments, I produce it, I arrange it, and it's a self-indulgent exercise. It's the way I make my music. And when I'm acting, I get to leave myself behind, which is a relief. I get to collaborate with a director; I respect the director's medium and all the actors and actresses. So at the end of the day, it's about a character and it's about a director's vision. It's a really good balance for being so intense and alone in my personal process of making music. — Lenny Kravitz

Every group, every system has a set of values and morals and when you get outside those, then the alarms ring. I was politically incorrect to 95% of the country; luckily my 5% had the bread to come see me. — Lenny Bruce

Sometimes chaos is a little easier to handle than the regular moments because your body just takes over. No time to think. Just do. — Lenny Jacobson

Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore. — Lenny Kravitz

The style of direction in 'Room,' maybe a little bit like 'Spotlight,' tries to be hidden. — Lenny Abrahamson

There are more ways to make 'Room' badly than well. — Lenny Abrahamson

Just FYI," Lenny says, his face still red from the nasty sunburn. "I've got a shitload of condoms in my duffle. Front pocket."
"For what?"
"Listen if you don't know what condoms are for I'm not gonna teach you."
"I know what they're for, shithead. I just highly doubt you're getting any ass on this trip."
"Watch me," Lenny says. "My boy gets action all the time."
"Yeah, I bet your right hand is tired from all that action" I mumble as I walk to the bathroom. "I'm a leftie!" Lenny calls after me.
I try not to wince from thinking about it. — Simone Elkeles

I'm fine here, Lenny. I'm discovering who I am without all my ornaments and accessories. It's quite a slow process, but a very useful one. Everybody ought to do the same at the end of their life. If I had any self-discipline I would beat my grandson to it and write my own memoirs. I have time, freedom, and silence, the three things I never had amidst all the noise of my earlier life. I'm preparing to die." "That won't — Isabel Allende

Lenny Kravitz is one of my favorite musical artists. — Lawrence Jackson

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

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think. — Dorothy Kilgallen

What is there about basketball that makes Larry Bird or Lenny Wilkens want to coach after their playing careers are done? — George Vecsey

Delusion is not good; better to be realistic and then surprise yourself if you're lucky. — Lenny Abrahamson

Never tell. Not if you love your wife ... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay On Top Of Me Or I'll Die.' " I didn't know what I was goin' to do ... — Lenny Bruce

Intimidation doesn't last very long. — Lenny Wilkens

I always felt there was a kind of humanistic impulse in my thinking about film as well as a real interest in its formal and aesthetic properties - just this idea that it can bring you into a very intimate encounter with people. — Lenny Abrahamson

Any comic like myself owes everything he has to Lenny Bruce. He was the originator. The godfather of uncensored American stand-up is clearly Lenny Bruce. — Joe Rogan

People are leaving the church and going back to God. — Lenny Bruce

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

Mothers love you to the end, and she didn't want to hold me back from my livelihood. So I left for a month and called her every couple of days. I came home and she died 24 hours later. — Lenny Kravitz

I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock. — Lenny Kravitz

It's a good time for me to pursue acting, I suppose since I'm enjoying having another medium in which to express myself. I've been getting a great response to my work. — Lenny Kravitz