Van Halen - The Seventh Seal

This Machiavellian worldview has been the engine of his success since the distant past, when he ran the affairs of Eddie Arnold. This stubbornness might have seemed criminal if Parker had in stock a whole brood of artists whom he would throw into the dump one by one; but he, a loner, set his whole professional future on Elvis Presley, and so it went on for fifteen years. He meticulously built an artist's career from successive stages, and only exceptional circumstances could force him to change his strategy.