"I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts"
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The verbs do the work. “Go,” “study,” “driving many, many hours” turns admiration into labor, the kind that doesn’t photograph well. “Study their records” is a musician talking like a musician, treating albums as textbooks: arrangements, tones, groove choices, even mistakes worth learning from. He frames concerts not as nights out but as field research, the live room where charisma becomes technique and songs become architecture.
There’s also a subtle class and access story embedded in the mileage. If you’re not waiting at the barricade for a signature, you’re spending your limited resources on tickets, gas, time off - investments that pay back in knowledge, not memorabilia. That posture foreshadows the Kravitz brand: reverent about rock history, allergic to desperate fan optics, determined to earn belonging through fluency.
Contextually, it’s a corrective to the myth that stars are born fully formed. Kravitz positions himself as someone who built taste through repetition and pilgrimage, not through networking or idol worship. The subtext is ambition with discipline: don’t touch the icon; decode the method.
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Kravitz, Lenny. (2026, January 17). I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-wasnt-the-kind-of-person-that-liked-waiting-for-74236/
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Kravitz, Lenny. "I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-wasnt-the-kind-of-person-that-liked-waiting-for-74236/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-wasnt-the-kind-of-person-that-liked-waiting-for-74236/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.



