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" You can come after me all day long. I don't care. "
Scott Borchetta
Come
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Me
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" I grew up in Southern California, so there is just a part of me that is a Hollywood rocker. "
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" Can a label group by itself scale to make a sensible business? I don't think so. "
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" There are a lot of similarities, even though we're in two different businesses: There's the Taylor Swift business and the Big Machine Label Group business, but there's a huge intersection there. When we're together, it's limitless. "
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" There's no reason people should be hungry in our country. It's not acceptable. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I'm not a politically correct person. "
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" Are there a million people out there who would love a Joey Cook album? I think there probably are. "
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" It's a rare opportunity when you can do something for the greater good. "
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" 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. "
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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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Culture
You
Cool
" It's such a loud world out there, so it's important to be able to be ubiquitous across formats. "
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" We decided when we were building Big Machine that we wanted to be a Harley or a Ferrari. "
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" 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. "
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" We came up with all these crazy ideas that Taylor Swift could be the biggest artist in the world - and it came true - and that we could have five labels and become the biggest independent record company in the world - and it came true. "
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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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" Like everything at Big Machine Label Group, the music comes out when it's ready. "
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" Season 1 of CTV's 'The Launch' exceeded our wildest expectations! "
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" A lot of times in a record company environment, it's, 'All right, go out on the road, go get some experience, come back in six months, and we'll see where we are.' I've erased that. Now it's, 'This is what we're working on today. I expect you to come in tomorrow and address this and be better.' "
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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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" 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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" If you look at most of our roster, we've got great singer/songwriters. I'm always attracted to that. "
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" So much time and attention has been spent on streaming that we've really gotten away from some of the things that we could have, energywise, put into working together with radio more closely for terrestrial. "
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" 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.' "
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