Scott Borchetta

“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.”

“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.”

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

“It never gets easier to break a new act.”

“Are there a million people out there who would love a Joey Cook album? I think there probably are.”

“I learned a long time ago, Don't ever doubt the power of Taylor Swift.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I've always thought we've done our best work when everything is on the line.”

“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.'”

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

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

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

“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.”

“The end game is always a hit song.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”