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Massive fame requires parental hatred and youth rebellion, not just art
“So if you can be that definition of rebellion, You can be the thing that the parents hate, that they can say they love. That's how you get to be Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Sinatra. You can't get that big by people just liking your art.”
Trust provides grace during failures while contracts invite retaliation
“When you fuck up, if you have a contract, they beat the shit out of you. When it's trust, the guy can say to you, I know you did the best you tried. I appreciate you trying.”
Pairing an unknown person with celebrities manufactures instant fame
“You put someone famous next to someone who's not famous, all of a sudden they become famous. Kim Kardashian is maybe our prime example today of that.”
Once clients are famous, management shifts strictly to filtering inbound requests
“Once you get to a certain point of fame, The filtering system is really important. So my job was, wasn't to be with the artist, not to get to know him, not to have them. My job was to get him famous, and then filter.”
Celebrities cope with fame by treating their public persona as a costume
“The advice that I give to everyone I've worked with and the ones that are able to do it Or able to later on in life do it, is to always think about the person that's out there as a character. Put it to sleep, like when you go out to dinner and you're Michael D…”
Broadcast media distribution turns artists into billionaires
“It was really how did groups of artists get from a place where they made nothing to where they're billionaires. And they all had the same kind of things in common, which was broadcast.”
Working for free prevents you from earning people's respect
“Money equates to respect. If you work for free for people, you don't get their respect.”
Negotiating win-win deals is harder on behalf of clients than oneself
“For me, I'm pretty successful at doing win-win, because I don't have to jump into stuff. For my artists, I'm not as successful, because there are a lot of people out there that, that want losers, and you have to make sure you're not one of them, that your arti…”