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" If you look at most of our roster, we've got great singer/songwriters. I'm always attracted to that. "
Scott Borchetta
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" 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. "
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" Our focus is still on country, but, really, on whatever music our artists are making. "
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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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" 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. "
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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'm being myself when the camera is rolling. "
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" Like everything at Big Machine Label Group, the music comes out when it's ready. "
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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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" Relationships feed on credibility, honesty, and consistency. "
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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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" 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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