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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. "

Scott Borchetta

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

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" I grew up in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California in the 1970s. My friends and I were into bicycle motocross and into skateboarding in empty swimming pools. Those activities shaped my generation. "

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" Sirius and XM went on air in 2001. It's taken 14 years for that to be a real business. It took them combining to be a real business. "

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

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" It's a rare opportunity when you can do something for the greater good. "

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

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" The world isn't all happy, shiny people, and great art doesn't come from vanilla. Great art comes from people with a point of view and are very passionate. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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'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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" 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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