Lenny Kravitz Quotes

I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.

Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.

Doing a residency in any particular city requires a large repertoire to ensure repeat business.

I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.

I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft.

When you know part of the industry thinks of you as a one-hit wonder, that's painful.

As an artist, as a brand, as a rapper, as a musician, you know you got a window and a lot of people, even an athlete; they don't have no exit strategy. It's just living in the false reality that it's going to be like this forever.

I was a wrestling fan long enough, and once in a while, I would get bored. I'd be on board with a superstar and love what he'd do. Then eventually, I would get bored with him. I don't want people to think that way of me, so I'm doing everything I can to make sure it doesn't happen.

My strategy isn't just to get the biggest audience; it's to get a loyal audience.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that's it, and somebody else come in.

If the people buying the pizza are happy, they'll probably buy the pizza again.

Big names and banners bring a lot of visibility to your work and it creates more opportunities for you.

I have some star status. But I don't have that sustained success rate.

I can choose to be a serious musician, but the sex symbol part is not up to me.

The thought crossed my mind about not wanting to alienate my fan base, but I don't know what would alienate them or bring them in, so I decided not to think about it.

I woke up famous for about a minute, then stopped being famous again.

We are going to make people who do some things with Santander into loyal customers who bank with us every day. This is what will allow us to compete in a world where banking customers have more and more choice. If we don't do this, then we won't grow in the next decade.

Zoom does not focus on revenue goals, but rather we have confidence that focusing on the happiness of existing customers and our employees will organically increase growth.

Franchises need to evolve or die.

Whether you have incredible products like at Apple or a great service business, it all comes down to fundamental trust and relationship-building with your customers.

We don't need to take the world by storm. We just need to make our customers happy, and when we do that, the word spreads.

When you focus solely on valuation and market share, you win some and you lose some. When you focus on the needs of your customers and help them achieve their dreams, you win every time.

No dealer, curator, buyer or critic, or any existing combination of these, can be depended on to produce a reputation that is more than a momentary flurry.

The late '90s were a really bad time for people trying to be rock stars, you know what I mean? It seemed like everyone was a one-hit wonder on the radio. We had friends who had a hit single on the radio and sold 500,000 records, and then they couldn't get arrested a year later. I had this feeling at the time that that was not possible anymore, so the idea of becoming the biggest band in the country—it seemed laughable. I felt that having those sort of ambitions was foolish, because there was no way that was going to be possible. If you saw it that way, you were just deluding yourself.

If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ahead.... Not ahead at all. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but "what are you going to do now?" is the only thing that matters.