"Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me."
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Lana Del Rey quotes (page 8 of 10)
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"I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like."
"Sold my soul long ago, nothing left to choose. I will follow Satan. Dancing in the dark."
"My mum and my dad they both like to sing they have really nice voices and my sister and my brother actually they are good singers too. I've been really blessed actually more than most to have a really good people around me."
"Dope and diamonds, dope and diamonds, that's all that I want"
"I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale."
"I was a different sort of child, as half the children are. I was in that category of being free-spirited."
"I'd liked my first record, it was autobiographical and beautiful."
"I believe that there is no doubts about who I am, an artist who loves music, above everything."
"I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride."
"As soon as the first person wrote about me, the articles became just blatant, all-out lies. I consider it slander. If I cared more, I'd kill them."
"When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying."
"I was always a singer, it was nothing anyone planned on me doing for real, because it's an unusual thing. I was just sort of saying, even having modest ambitions to have a small career at singing, it's still really difficult to do that. Everyone wants to sing or act or whatever."
"Mary prays the rosary for my broken mind."
"I suppose my approach to religion is like my approach to music - I take what I want and leave the rest."
"Down on the West Coast I get this feeling like it all could happen."
"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."
"I learned that there's no reason why people decide they like music when they do."
"This is what makes us girls/ We don't stick together 'cause we put our love first."
"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."