Lenny Kravitz Quotes

I think you can't repeat beats. If you're doing something in one book, you can't do the exact same thing in another book.

Composers are very individual creatures.

I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

Without a doubt, even when I play with Black Label, when we have different guys I play with, everyone always brings their own magic, their own flavor to the soup, hands down.

I always strive to make my music unique.

I've always been a good imitator. I love music. But I'm just not that original.

I'm dead serious about my craft and just really serious about making music in itself. I take pride in making songs and albums where no two songs sound alike. That's the challenge and that's what it's all about, to keep it original and fresh and funky.

I really believe in melody.

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

When the whole point of Queen was to be original.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

Any good music must be an innovation.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

None of my songs sound the same. None of them. I take R&B beats and put it as a rap song or hip-hop beats and put them as a R&B song. A lot of people are boring. I don't like boring music. Everybody sounds the same, like they copying.

I think it's being innovative and very creative to stay away from flat-out sampling somebody else's record. To me, that doesn't show too much of your creative side unless you take a little piece and add it, almost like spice on a chicken.

Many times in music, if you are given limitations, it expands the creativity.

I love seeing people collaborate to make great music!

Improvising is writing, too - there was no music and now there's music. So that's composition. And any time you take any sort of a performance liberty, you're making a compositional choice. I don't know a serious performer who hasn't made compositional decisions, who hasn't engaged in the art of composition.

Music is all about creativity.

Words are music, really.