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" 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. "

Scott Borchetta

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" Most of our artists are songwriters, so the songs are still central to all this. If you don't have great songs, it doesn't matter the marketing or how many times you are on TV; you can only polish it so much. "

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" I've always thought we've done our best work when everything is on the line. "

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" If you listen, people will tell you exactly what they want - whether it's a business relationship or a consumer relationship. "

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" You can have all personality in the world, the looks, etc., but if you don't have the songs, it doesn't close the deal. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I'm not a 'practicing' musician anymore. I played bass and guitar. I still pick up a guitar around the house every once in awhile. "

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" There are a lot of similarities, even though we're in two different businesses: There's the Taylor Swift business and the Big Machine Label Group business, but there's a huge intersection there. When we're together, it's limitless. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" Something that I've told all of my young artists is, there are going to be haters. You're going to read things that are going to hurt you. It's not going to make any sense. Just know that it's out there and that it's really easy to just press 'delete.' "

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" I don't know that you can set out to be a brand. For us, it happened very organically, and we never rushed it or leaned on it too hard. I felt a true culture had started to emerge several years into the Machine, so we started trying some things, starting with simple stuff like cool merch. "

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

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

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" The camera is the gatekeeper to the audience that's watching you. "

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" Without naming names, you can take some of the biggest artists of the last 25-30 years and point to those moments where they thought they were going to be movie stars, put the entire weight of a film on their back, and it failed. And some of them didn't recover from that. "

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" The facts show that the music industry was much better off before Spotify hit these shores. "

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" Like everything at Big Machine Label Group, the music comes out when it's ready. "

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" It never gets easier to break a new act. "

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" 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. "

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" We try to stay on the edge of the mainstream and look at what the most aggressive young kids are running toward. "

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" There's no reason people should be hungry in our country. It's not acceptable. "

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

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" 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. "

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" When we grew up, we couldn't wait to get our hands on cars, work with them, change the look of them. Now you see kids being like, 'I'll just take the Uber,' or 'Oh, I don't even have my driver's license yet.' I'm like, 'Ugh, who are you people?' "

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