Words matter. These are the best Scott Borchetta Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I attended College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, Calif., for a year, but college wasn’t for me. I was curious about life beyond Los Angeles.
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.’
It’s just part of my DNA. I love racing.
You can have all personality in the world, the looks, etc., but if you don’t have the songs, it doesn’t close the deal.
Part of the mission of Nash Icon is taking away some of the day-to-day, hand-to-hand combat that you have to do to continue the mainstream country-radio relationship.
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.
Winning ‘American Idol’ really anoints you the opportunity to have a great career; it does not anoint you a career.
You can come after me all day long. I don’t care.
Season 1 of CTV’s ‘The Launch’ exceeded our wildest expectations!
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.
The camera is the gatekeeper to the audience that’s watching you.
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.
I’ve always thought that I’ve had a nice gift for putting the right people together.
You have to be responsible to yourself… but that doesn’t mean you can’t have a point of view about something.
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.
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.
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.
There’s no reason people should be hungry in our country. It’s not acceptable.
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.
When we first started, I had the time to personally live every project. As I continue to build the company, I’ve learned much better ways to delegate and let the executive team run. It’s just as exciting for me to see the executives succeed as it is the artists.
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.
We’re a content company. And if we create the best content, every distributor will want what we have.
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.
It never gets easier to break a new act.
If you stand for something, that means there are going to be people who support you and people who don’t support you.
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.
Some people are just gifted with a great voice, other people are gifted with great emotion, other people are gifted with great engagement – when you find all of those things in one package, you have Taylor Swift.
I grew up in Southern California, so there is just a part of me that is a Hollywood rocker.
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.
We try to stay on the edge of the mainstream and look at what the most aggressive young kids are running toward.
I’ve always thought we’ve done our best work when everything is on the line.
You’ve got to believe in yourself.
I’m not a politically correct person.
We decided when we were building Big Machine that we wanted to be a Harley or a Ferrari.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Auto racing has been a big part of my life since I was very young. When the car feels right, it’s like, ‘We’ve got a big machine.’
It’s such a loud world out there, so it’s important to be able to be ubiquitous across formats.
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.’
If we don’t have great music, we’re not any company.
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.
