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

Scott Borchetta

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" If you stand for something, that means there are going to be people who support you and people who don't support you. "

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

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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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" Season 1 of CTV's 'The Launch' exceeded our wildest expectations! "

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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. "

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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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" If you listen, people will tell you exactly what they want - whether it's a business relationship or a consumer relationship. "

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

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

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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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" 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?' "

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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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" 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. "

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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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" We have a mantra at the Big Machine Label Group: Start with crazy and work backward. "

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

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

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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. "

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" If you think back to the beginning of the label, we knew we had to strike quickly and aggressively and go for the brass ring. "

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