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" As an artist development platform, we've proven that all the work done behind the scenes at American Idol, along with surviving the rigors of the intense live shows, can properly prepare a winner for a real-world music career opportunity. "

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" A lot of times in a record company environment, it's, 'All right, go out on the road, go get some experience, come back in six months, and we'll see where we are.' I've erased that. Now it's, 'This is what we're working on today. I expect you to come in tomorrow and address this and be better.' "

Scott Borchetta

You

Experience

Road

" I grew up in Southern California. I played in rock bands out here, and I've been around pop music my whole life. I've been around all music my entire life. "

" I've had so many conversations with new artists trying to figure out their careers. "

" We decided when we were building Big Machine that we wanted to be a Harley or a Ferrari. "

" Our focus is still on country, but, really, on whatever music our artists are making. "

" I go by the rule of Gretzky: you gotta be there before the puck gets there, or you're going to get beat. "

" My father was in record promotion in Los Angeles. He worked for Mercury Records, Capitol Records, and RCA Records. My parents divorced when I was about 9. In 1978, my dad moved to Nashville and opened an independent record promotion company, Mike Borchetta Promotions. "

" If you look at most of our roster, we've got great singer/songwriters. I'm always attracted to that. "

" You have to be responsible to yourself... but that doesn't mean you can't have a point of view about something. "

" When we first started, I had the time to personally live every project. As I continue to build the company, I've learned much better ways to delegate and let the executive team run. It's just as exciting for me to see the executives succeed as it is the artists. "

" Our entire goal is to make something that moves you... if you don't want to call it country, I don't care. That doesn't matter to me. "

Scott Borchetta

Care

Country

" The last thing we want is for radio to say that they can't afford to play our artists and turn off the pipe. "

" Are there a million people out there who would love a Joey Cook album? I think there probably are. "

" I think when we do our job right, our artists don't sound like anybody else. I have a real hard time with voices that sound like other big voices. "

" We're a content company. And if we create the best content, every distributor will want what we have. "

" Winning 'American Idol' really anoints you the opportunity to have a great career; it does not anoint you a career. "

" When I started the label, I stopped racing. Even though I have a better chance of getting hurt walking outside and falling down the stairs, if I had gotten injured on the racetrack, people would be going, 'What is this guy doing?' So I had to grow up a little bit. "

" What's on the edge? What's next? That's where I think I do my best work - if I push my whole team to the edge. "

" I've always thought that I've had a nice gift for putting the right people together. "

" We're not too top heavy with executives. I don't have to check with New York or L.A. My crew walks in, we talk about something, and either we do it or we don't. There's not a long, drawn out process. "

" I don't want to worry about someone calling me and going, 'You better find a way to get another Taylor Swift record out this quarter.' When there's that kind of financial pressure dictating your path, it's hard to take creative risks. "

Scott Borchetta

Path

Creative

" We have a mantra at the Big Machine Label Group: Start with crazy and work backward. "

" Part of the mission of Nash Icon is taking away some of the day-to-day, hand-to-hand combat that you have to do to continue the mainstream country-radio relationship. "

" There is no way to keep your thumb on the pulse unless you have your thumb on the pulse, and I think we have it. "

" We came up with all these crazy ideas that Taylor Swift could be the biggest artist in the world - and it came true - and that we could have five labels and become the biggest independent record company in the world - and it came true. "

Scott Borchetta

Crazy

World

" Relationships feed on credibility, honesty, and consistency. "

" I attended College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, Calif., for a year, but college wasn't for me. I was curious about life beyond Los Angeles. "

" I'm not a politically correct person. "

" Because we are Nashville-based and predominately a country label, people obviously think of us in that way, and that's fine. "

" So much time and attention has been spent on streaming that we've really gotten away from some of the things that we could have, energywise, put into working together with radio more closely for terrestrial. "