Quotes from Scott Borchetta

When we signed Taylor Swift, people said, 'You're signing a 15-year-old female country artist? Good luck!'

We're a content company. And if we create the best content, every distributor will want what we have.

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

It's such a loud world out there, so it's important to be able to be ubiquitous across formats.

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

As an artist development platform, we've proven that all the work done behind the scenes at American Idol, along with surviving the rigors of the intense live shows, can properly prepare a winner for a real-world music career opportunity.

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

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 a rare opportunity when you can do something for the greater good.

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

There is no way to keep your thumb on the pulse unless you have your thumb on the pulse, and I think we have it.

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.'

The reality of recording, it's one of the most intimate things that an artist ever does because if you do it right, you're exposing yourself, and you're expressing your emotions, and those are the key attributes to a big record that really connect with people.

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.

We decided when we were building Big Machine that we wanted to be a Harley or a Ferrari.

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.

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.

Relationships feed on credibility, honesty, and consistency.

Winning 'American Idol' really anoints you the opportunity to have a great career; it does not anoint you a career.

We try to stay on the edge of the mainstream and look at what the most aggressive young kids are running toward.

Like everything at Big Machine Label Group, the music comes out when it's ready.

Can a label group by itself scale to make a sensible business? I don't think so.

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

Because we are Nashville-based and predominately a country label, people obviously think of us in that way, and that's fine.