Lana Del Rey Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Be Young, Be Dope, Be Proud.”
-- Lana Del ReySource : Song: American, Album: Born to Die - The Paradise Edition, 2012
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“Even if you're the best singer in the world, there's a good chance no one will ever hear you.”
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“Do you know how expensive it is to look this cheap?”
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“It's not like I think my art is inspirations from icons strung together. They're just sort of people who others talk about. I am definitely interested in the masters of different genres, they're talented and popular for a reason.”
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“I was, you know, a mess. I totally wanted to kill myself every day.”
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“I sort of do what I say and say what I do which I'm happy with because it makes my life real easy. When I was younger, people would say that I was inspired by David Lynch, so I went and watched his stuff and I was surprised. I thought it was smart, with what I was trying to do lyrically. So I started watching some of his stuff. I've never seen his movies in [their] entirety, I'm more interested in him as a person and how he came to be successful taking an alternative route, sort of a subculture icon.”
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“I pretend I'm not hurt, I walk about the world like I'm having fun.”
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“I was never successful in a noteworthy way, no one wrote about me, and I didn't have recognition. I've met a lot of musicians along the way who thought I was good, and they knew that was important to me. Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.”
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“I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth.”
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“I entered a songwriting competition, I didn't win, and one of the judges on the panel was an A&R man at a record label that had no other acts and I signed to them. We sent my demo out to five people and David Kahne got back to me that day, and said I think you're amazing I want to start with you tomorrow. He was like my Harvard reach school, I couldn't believe it. I was really excited. It was the first time anyone of any importance said I was good and I ran with that validation for a long time.”
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“I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities.”
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“I already have success. I had it a long time ago. It's nothing to do with my music. Music is secondary, at this point. The good stuff is really good, but I have success because I'm at peace and I'm a good person in my everyday life and that's important.”
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“When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying.”
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“New York's architecture alone is enough to inspire a whole album. In fact, that's what happened at first - my early stuff was mostly just interpretations of landscapes.”
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“I'd been sick on tour for about two years with this medical anomaly that doctors couldn't figure out. That's a big part of my life: I just feel really sick a lot of the time and can't figure out why. I'd gotten these shots in Russia, where we'd just been. It was just heavy. It's just heavy performing for people who really care about you, and you don't really care that much about yourself sometimes.”
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“My understanding of God has come from my own personal experiences. Because I was in trouble so many times in New York that if you were me, you would believe in God too.”
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“I've making videos since I was seventeen I was originally discollecting vintage hmmm... footages from different archives and setting moving pictures to classical music clips that meant a lot to me. Maybe there were places I have been where nice things have happened. I had a vision of making my life a work of art and I was looking for people who also felt that way.”
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“I suppose my approach to religion is like my approach to music - I take what I want and leave the rest.”
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“Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.”
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“I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.”
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“Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.”
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“With some of the bad things that come with love, there's also a lot of good. For example that connection... which I struggle to have with most people.”
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“Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.”
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“Pick your role models wisely, find out what they did and do it.”
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“it takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is”
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“Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you're mean.”
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“My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that's not my aim.”
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“I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken. But I didn't really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.”
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“I'd liked my first record, it was autobiographical and beautiful.”
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“My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.”
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