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“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.”
“You've got to believe in yourself.”
“You can come after me all day long. I don't care.”
“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.”
“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.'”
“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.”
“The last thing we want is for radio to say that they can't afford to play our artists and turn off the pipe.”
“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.”
“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?'”
“I learned that you could beat the big guys with desire, passion, and hard work.”
“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.”
“I grew up in Southern California, so there is just a part of me that is a Hollywood rocker.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If we don't have great music, we're not any company.”
“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.”
“It's a rare opportunity when you can do something for the greater good.”
“You have to be responsible to yourself... but that doesn't mean you can't have a point of view about something.”
“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.”
“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.'”