Lana Del Rey Quotes
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I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.
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Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.
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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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I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.
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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 someone else’s happiness is your happiness, that is love.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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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.
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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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If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.
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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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When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.
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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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I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.
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I've been living in New York for about seven years and a lot of the people that I started singing with don't sing any more, don't write any more. So the fact that I can still do that that's kind of a gift, that's what I sort of stay focused on.
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There's backlash about everything I do.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.
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I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger.
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I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
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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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Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.
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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.