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" If we don't have great music, we're not any company. "
Scott Borchetta
Great Music
Great
Company
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" It's a rare opportunity when you can do something for the greater good. "
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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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" Every day is an adventure, and no two days are ever alike. "
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" Our focus is still on country, but, really, on whatever music our artists are making. "
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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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" I learned that you could beat the big guys with desire, passion, and hard work. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" There's no reason people should be hungry in our country. It's not acceptable. "
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Our
" 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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" 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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Parents
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" The camera is the gatekeeper to the audience that's watching you. "
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Audience
Watching
" 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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You
" With the launch of Big Machine Premium Vodka, we are now offering a superior product that perfectly complements the music we take such great pride in. "
Scott Borchetta
Now
Product
Pride
" 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
Most
Great
" Can a label group by itself scale to make a sensible business? I don't think so. "
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Group
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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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Create
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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. "
Scott Borchetta
Point Of View
View
You
" Like everything at Big Machine Label Group, the music comes out when it's ready. "
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Like
Everything
" It doesn't matter if it's social media or radio media or television media - it's all media, and it's all marketing. It's about understanding where your fans are. And when you have infiltrated them, and they're satisfied, and there's demand, how do you grow it from there? "
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Understanding
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" 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. "
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Time
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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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Crazy
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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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Creative
" It's such a loud world out there, so it's important to be able to be ubiquitous across formats. "
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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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" I've always thought that I've had a nice gift for putting the right people together. "
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" I've always thought we've done our best work when everything is on the line. "
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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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" Winning 'American Idol' really anoints you the opportunity to have a great career; it does not anoint you a career. "
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Winning
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