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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. "

Scott Borchetta

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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.' "

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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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" 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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" When we signed Taylor Swift, people said, 'You're signing a 15-year-old female country artist? Good luck!' "

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

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" Every day is an adventure, and no two days are ever alike. "

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

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

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" If you stand for something, that means there are going to be people who support you and people who don't support you. "

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

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" You can come after me all day long. I don't care. "

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" The end game is always a hit song. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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" Auto racing has been a big part of my life since I was very young. When the car feels right, it's like, 'We've got a big machine.' "

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" For the label to grow, it has to have great executives who understand the culture, understand the mission, and can lead. I don't want to be part of every decision. "

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" Can a label group by itself scale to make a sensible business? I don't think so. "

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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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" 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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