Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" It's just part of my DNA. I love racing. "

Scott Borchetta

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

Scott Borchetta

" 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. "

Scott Borchetta

" 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. "

Scott Borchetta

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

Scott Borchetta

" When you break an artist, you learn a lot. "

Scott Borchetta

" 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

" 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.' "

Scott Borchetta

" The nicest thing that my friends who've known me for 15 or 20 years say to me is, 'Man, it's crazy that you're the same guy.' It's like, 'Which guy did you expect me to be?' "

Scott Borchetta

" 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

" I learned that you could beat the big guys with desire, passion, and hard work. "

Scott Borchetta

" 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. "

Scott Borchetta

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

Scott Borchetta

" 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. "

Scott Borchetta

" 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? "

Scott Borchetta

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

Scott Borchetta

" It's such a loud world out there, so it's important to be able to be ubiquitous across formats. "

Scott Borchetta

" The Big Machine Label Group will continue to knock down doors to break female talent. "

Scott Borchetta

" 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. "

Scott Borchetta

" 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?' "

Scott Borchetta

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

Scott Borchetta

" 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. "

Scott Borchetta

" If we don't have great music, we're not any company. "

Scott Borchetta

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

Scott Borchetta

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

Scott Borchetta

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

Scott Borchetta

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

Scott Borchetta

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

Scott Borchetta

" I grew up in Southern California, so there is just a part of me that is a Hollywood rocker. "

Scott Borchetta

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

Scott Borchetta

" In 1985, I went to work for MTM Records, Mary Tyler Moore's Nashville record label, and stayed three years. After that, I spent two years as an independent promoter, then worked for MCA Nashville Records, DreamWorks Nashville, and Universal Music Nashville. "

Scott Borchetta