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“Am I glad I listened to you,” a young man said.
“What did I say to you?”
“You said, ‘Never sign a contract.’ My band was approached by……..(Does not matter they are all the same). Everyone signed the contract but me. I remembered what you said. I took it to my father’s lawyer. After reading it he told me, ‘If you sign this you will lose ownership to all your ideas and you won’t make a dime. You will be a slave.'”
It does not matter if you are Black, White or any shade in-between.
It does not matter if you are male or female.
Everyone gets treated the same.
“Be very careful what you sign, everybody in the world! Even though you think you know what it’s all about, you’ll find out you didn’t know nothing! The wording in contracts is so riddled in tangles and lawyer-ese – it might as well be Vietnamese. What you think you’re clearly understanding is not right at all, it’s something completely different. You get caught up and tangled in these things and then for years later you’re trying to unravel them. You go through that and here it is, it’s your first record deal, and you’re absolutely thrilled. No two ways about it, you think you’re made, you’re set up for life. Yippee! Achievement Number One. But it isn’t. That’s what life is, a series of setups and kickbacks”–Johnny Lydon (Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols), in his book – Anger is an Energy
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