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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. "

Scott Borchetta

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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'm not a politically correct person. "

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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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Path

Creative

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

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