Lana Del Rey Quotes

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Lana Del Rey

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 21, 1985

I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

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My music is a luxury.

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I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.

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I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

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I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

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I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all.

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If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.

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There's backlash about everything I do.

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Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

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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. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

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When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.

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I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.

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I'm a writer first and a singer second.

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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

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In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

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Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.

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If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

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I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

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