American - Businessman | July 3, 1962 -
Season 1 of CTV's 'The Launch' exceeded our wildest expectations!
Scott Borchetta
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If we don't have great music, we're not any company.
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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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There's no reason people should be hungry in our country. It's not acceptable.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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When you break an artist, you learn a lot.
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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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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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