110+ Annie Lennox Quotes On Music, Aism And Science

Annie Lennox is a Scottish musician, singer-songwriter, and political activist. She first rose to fame in the 1980s as the lead singer of the new wave band Eurythmics, and has since released eight solo studio albums. She has won numerous awards, including four Grammy Awards, an MTV Video Music Award, and an Oscar. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Annie Lennox on love, life, music.

Top 10 Annie Lennox Quotes

1. The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.
2. This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead
3. I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.
4. A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.
5. We're not interested to know the real heroes. We're really more interested in the villains, actually, and they seem to thrive, and it continues to be business as usual.
6. When I was younger I wish I'd known that what often seemed to be the 'end of the world' often turned out to be a positive and transformative experience!
7. When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.
8. You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed.
9. I didn't want to be a Barbie doll. I didn't want to be a passive entertainer. It wasn't how I wanted to present myself.
10. Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.

Annie Lennox Short Quotes

• Each individual is as individual as their fingerprints, and I think that's extraordinary.
• Success breeds the excitement to continue going.
• Women empowering other women.They get the psycho-social support. They become part of a community.
• If one woman is suffering, then we are all suffering, and we need to put a voice to that.
• To be human is to have a whole spectrum of these experiences that arise within us.
• The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.
• Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.
• One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.
• I'm not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.
• We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well.

Annie Lennox Quotes About Life

Imagine living in abject poverty and not knowing anything other than that for generations. Or alternatively, imagine being born into a really wealthy family, but there was no real love. Everyone's living these extraordinary, interesting lives whether they know it or not. — Annie Lennox

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams. — Annie Lennox

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard. — Annie Lennox

You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful. — Annie Lennox

We're all born, and if you're going to live to be elderly, you'll have gone through a life journey different than anyone else's. It's unique to you, but you'll have some common themes. — Annie Lennox

I'm passionate about everything, actually. I'm passionate about life. — Annie Lennox

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life. — Annie Lennox

I'm not living my life under the spotlight for anybody. — Annie Lennox

Annie Lennox Quotes About Music

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that. — Annie Lennox

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me. — Annie Lennox

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won t. — Annie Lennox

We think that this is just our world and we don't know what other people are thinking. Music actually is a phenomenal connector in that respect. It's a special language that defines certain boundaries and connects people in a particular way, a very emotional way, I have found. — Annie Lennox

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it. — Annie Lennox

The music industry has always been a beast, which would eat you up and spit you out. — Annie Lennox

The music scene in the '70s was like the United Kingdom in the '70s - we had a lot of unemployment, we had inflation, we had a lot of strikes going on, on a national scale, and a lot of discontent. That was reflected in the music. — Annie Lennox

Annie Lennox Quotes About Powerful

I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves. — Annie Lennox

I'm appalled that the word 'feminism' has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture. It isn't about us and them. — Annie Lennox

When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful. — Annie Lennox

Annie Lennox Quotes About Children

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well. — Annie Lennox

Medicine comes with hope: the hope of having a healthy child, the hope of being able to raise your family. — Annie Lennox

When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school. — Annie Lennox

We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of [HIV] from mother to child by 2015. ... We believe it can be achieved with political will. — Annie Lennox

I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can. — Annie Lennox

To try to help people have babies in a healthy way and to celebrate the process of delivering a child which will be healthy is, I think, almost the best part of healthcare. — Annie Lennox

It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore. — Annie Lennox

I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own. — Annie Lennox

Annie Lennox Famous Quotes And Sayings

Fashion is temporary; fashion is a race. What it's doing is giving you something that you say, "This is the outer wrapping of me." Style is something else. It's not quantifiable. Fashion is about selling. Fashion is about what's in. Style is independent of that; style is individual. — Annie Lennox

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. We create these communities from women who share common conditions, and those mothers carry each other through. — Annie Lennox

Something that's of common interest to every man, woman and child on the planet must surely be the notion of 'Peace'. Without 'Peace' we cannot survive. Valentine's Day is on the 14 February. Christmas Day is on the 25 December. Peace Day has been established by the United Nations on the 21 September, and the whole world is invited to participate. — Annie Lennox

I think that you can only be true to yourself. Nobody can live up to other people's expectations. You will always let them down. There will always be something they won't like about you. — Annie Lennox

You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You have to find associative meaning to get you there. So it's rather like doing a crossword puzzle backwards. A kind of strange, three-dimensional, abstract crossword puzzle. — Annie Lennox

There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen. — Annie Lennox

I grew up in a middle class household with parents, went to good schools, and never feared for anything, never wanted for anything that was really important. For all of us living in this world, all of us who have the resources, for us to not dedicate ourselves to giving something back, is to leave the world a lesser place. — Annie Lennox

To be labeled as a strong woman when you feel vulnerable is a strange place to be, because then you're, like, "Oh, I have to be strong now. But I don't feel strong. I feel alienated. I feel isolated. I feel that things are very surreal, and they're not authentic, and this is all just very overwhelming." — Annie Lennox

Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is why if, like me, you want to see an end to poverty, you need to be in it for the long haul. — Annie Lennox

If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist. — Annie Lennox

Twerking is not feminism. Thats what I’m referring to. It’s not — it’s not liberating, it’s not empowering. It’s a sexual thing that you’re doing on a stage; it doesn’t empower you. That’s my feeling about it. — Annie Lennox

The poetic side of me is Scottish. — Annie Lennox

I guess what I'm passionate about is, I see so many things that I find that there's no real solution to, and you're only here for such a brief moment in time, even if you live to be a hundred years old. Yet, what happens within that time frame? So many things happen. — Annie Lennox

I had a number of different labels. A lot of people assumed I was gay because I was wearing a man's suit, and one had to learn that it's OK, people will do that, and you don't always have to explain it one hundred percent, because they're never going to accept what your own interpretation is. It's all illusory. — Annie Lennox

The very fact that the planet is probably unsustainable with all that we've done to it and are doing to it, it's an appalling piece of evidence. It shows our complacency, our lack of passion or inclination to be authentic and really understand our true values. It's consistently depressing, but nevertheless, we carry on. — Annie Lennox

When things are starting to work, you get up at five in the morning thinking, what are we going to do today? You stay up until one in the morning getting it done, and then you start the next day with the same energy, because it's working! — Annie Lennox

I knew that I wanted to be a singer/songwriter when I was much younger and, um, I've been able to, you know, to realize that dream and I'm very pleased with that...I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry...Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion-very powerful emotions. — Annie Lennox

In memory, you can access something from the past, anything that you've experienced that you remember - it's there. Now, you might have a memento of it in a photograph or in a film or a building or some clothes that you wore. There might be something that connects you to this memory. But all of us are just all caught in this time, whatever that is. — Annie Lennox

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being. — Annie Lennox

I'm not a risk taker physically. I just have no interest in swinging myself off a mountaintop or parachute gliding or skiing down a totally vertical drop. These things don't interest me in the slightest, but I get so caught up in the color or the texture of the sounds of something. That's so funny to me. — Annie Lennox

The momentum of time is always going forward. You cannot repeat what has been done before. You can't go back. — Annie Lennox

As you get older, there will be a new challenge arising. What you thought you'd accomplished once, maybe the goal post has shifted and it's not what you're pursuing anymore, because you're not interested in that anymore, you know? — Annie Lennox

We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us. — Annie Lennox

I'm not particularly attention-seeking. — Annie Lennox

Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it. — Annie Lennox

It was very easy for me to dedicate myself to the care of mothers, help them have healthy babies, help them be healthy, help them in a place where they don't have opportunities. Success breeds the excitement to continue going. It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed. — Annie Lennox

More than anything, I think everything about appearance is illusory. People see you, and they think they understand what you're projecting, but actually, they have their own interpretation of it, or they put a label on you. — Annie Lennox

I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance. — Annie Lennox

I wanted to create something that was quite edgy and belonged to me. It wasn't about my sexual orientation, because I'm heterosexual. It was saying that appearance is just temporary, and I want to be as strong as a man. — Annie Lennox

There are so many things that we could do to change the world in so many aspects. There are people working in nonprofit organizations, tackling the issues that we so desperately need to face, while governments fail so appallingly. — Annie Lennox

In the States, the HIV transmission from mother to child is almost completely preventable - the only mothers who really do transmit it are the ones who don't come in for care. If a mother in the United States or in Europe or in the UK comes to care and gets her medicines, she will have an HIV negative baby. Most people don't know that. — Annie Lennox

I think that the thing is, all those years of creating music or trying to express something of a dark shadow, an existential angst that I have felt most of my life and still feel today, to not be overwhelmed by it. Music, in a way, is a great vehicle, a means by which one can express all these somewhat contradictory feelings. — Annie Lennox

I'm very intrigued that in this culture of reality television and celebrity - which is an enormous industry and generates billions and billions of dollars - we're so resourceful. — Annie Lennox

People ask me so many questions. — Annie Lennox

There's good stuff and bad stuff, but you continue on. I'm not prescriptive - I cannot tell anyone else what to do with their lives, and I'm a deeply flawed individual - but this is it. We're all just living it and... bless us all. — Annie Lennox

I stand on the shoulders of giants that have gone before me, in terms of affording people like myself, women, the access to democracy, the vote, medical treatment, education, everything that I've been given. It's all been earned. — Annie Lennox

I want to be true to who I am. — Annie Lennox

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me. — Annie Lennox

In a way, it's all down to perception, isn't it? And everyone has their own take on everything. — Annie Lennox

Poor countries are being forced to deal with an unprecedented health crisis without the means to tackle it . Governments can only show how seriously they are taking this crisis by taking immediate action to provide four million extra health workers and to grant those in need access to affordable medicines. — Annie Lennox

There was a time when I looked to other people for recognition, because I didn't have enough confidence to trust my own judgment. Now I'm not looking for reassurance, because I realize how fickle people are. My own strength is the best I can have. — Annie Lennox

I wouldn't have known when I was a teenager that when I was coming up to being a sixty-year-old woman that I'd be making music, I'd be recording music, talking about music, and incorporating my views on the world into the music-making. So it's a very rarefied place to be, and I'm very grateful for that. — Annie Lennox

If you do nothing, if a mother doesn't come for care, if she breastfeeds her baby, the chances of the baby getting HIV are about 40%. So it's about the difference between 40% and zero. This is almost totally preventable. But it requires mothers coming for care and getting the medicines they need, and getting the education and support they need. — Annie Lennox

Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters. — Annie Lennox

I wasn't trying to be a role model for anybody. I don't think that you can. — Annie Lennox

I don't have any interest to go to Israel. I don't think I'd ever have a cause to go. — Annie Lennox

I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered. — Annie Lennox

You have a bigger view, of something bigger than you, and you have to view that and take that in mind. At times you feel like despair rises up over hope, then other times you feel hopeful again. — Annie Lennox

There's always darkness around, and if you focus on the darkness, you don't know where to go. But if you direct yourself at the light - there it is! It's right there. — Annie Lennox

You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. — Annie Lennox

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in. — Annie Lennox

At times, I've been so absolutely terrified of what I was about to do, whether it was public speaking or performance. Whatever it was, sometimes it had me really, really shaking in my shoes, and I decided that I was going to do it no matter what. And, of course, the critic is there, and afterwards, there's this, "Was it good enough? Was it really all I wanted to say?" — Annie Lennox

I wouldn't say that I've mellowed. I'm less mellow, perhaps. — Annie Lennox

Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe. — Annie Lennox

I live in a world of possibility and opportunity. You look for the light. There's darkness everywhere but you look for that spot of light and you work your way towards it, and you do what it takes to get there. — Annie Lennox

Let me be the only one to keep you from the cold Now the floor of hell is laid, the stars are bright as gold They light for you, they shine for you They burn for all to see Come into these arms again and set your spirit free — Annie Lennox

Whatever you do, you do out of a passion. — Annie Lennox

I get very frustrated when I hear women saying, "Oh, feminism is passé," because I think feminism means empowerment. Men can be feminists, too! Many men are feminists. We need feminism. It's not against men; it's about the empowerment of women. It's the respect of women - giving women equal rights, the same opportunities. — Annie Lennox

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin. — Annie Lennox

My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was terrifying, because we knew nothing about how to respond to it appropriately, and we didn't really understand about how the virus is passed. There was a lot of misconception about that. — Annie Lennox

I think it takes a lot to put oneself in a place where, you know, that thing about "Feel the fear and do it anyway." You wonder what the driving force is that makes you want to do that and not just stay in a safer place. — Annie Lennox

What's really interesting is when you get a brand-new wave that has no connection to anything else. It always reflects society. The flappers would cut the dresses and make them looser, they smoked, their hair was short. It was a rebellion against the corset and the Edwardian era. — Annie Lennox

I'd rather support the issues I truly believe in than give my vote to parties that court votes at the time of the election. I like to think that my vote strengthens the green foundation stone. — Annie Lennox

The contrast of the world that we live in and the world that is here in Aspen and the world inhabited by women who have no resources, little or no, very few resources - huge disparity. — Annie Lennox

You have to be quite grounded, and I don't know what that is. Sometimes, that means being vulnerable. — Annie Lennox

Life Lessons by Annie Lennox

1. Annie Lennox teaches us to be resilient and stay true to ourselves in the face of adversity. She has faced many challenges in her life and career, yet she has remained dedicated to her craft and her message of equality and social justice.
2. Annie Lennox also shows us the power of collaboration and the importance of working together to create something bigger than ourselves. She has worked with many other artists to create music that has had a lasting impact on the world.
3. Finally, Annie Lennox is a reminder that it is possible to achieve success and recognition without sacrificing your values and beliefs. She has remained true to her own vision and has used her platform to advocate for social change.