Scott Borchetta Quotes

I just wanted to have my own dynasty. I wanted my own Cash Money or Roc-A-Fella. Outside of that, I also wanted my own media company.

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

I always wanted to be a part of a New York-based label, so I've worked really hard to try and network with people that I felt would put me in the right place.

So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.

My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation.

Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.

I know it is common nowadays for artists to start labels but this is a thoroughly constructed vehicle for inspired talent. This is a market that we've been living, breathing and eating for our entire lives - one where a huge void currently exists. Favored Nations is a long-term commitment.

Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them.

Kill Rock Stars allowed me to put out a real genuine rock 'n' roll record.

I was signed to RCA to be a country singer.

I'm a huge fan of Geffen records. Everything about them - their artists, their videos, their marketing.

I should be the one to say what I do. It's just not done that way anymore in Nashville, and I can't do it the other way. That's how our record label came about.

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

Virgin Records will probably release their own package sometime next year.

We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.

I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.

When I got my record deal at Atlantic, at the time, 'indie' wasn't a style of music: it was a kind of label. And I think, eventually, the bands that ended up on those labels began to be branded as 'indie bands,' and then it became a genre.

Chance The Rapper makes some of the greatest music out, and he build his brand up organically, and the fans have reacted to it.

Roc was only supposed to be our distributor, but then they ended up recruiting me as the label's artist. They said they really liked my album 'Everything You Wanted.'

I've always wanted to release records in America. That's where I believe the music belongs, and the style and the eclectic musical mix that we put together kind of belongs here.

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.

All record companies want big-selling records, and my music is a little too raw for commercial success.

I'll always work with Stones Throw, but I'm trying to start my own label to release my old material and sign new artists. I want to do everything from rock, to jazz, to electronic, to noise records and movie sound tracks. Both sampled and original music.

With my second album, eOne Music really wanted me to rock it up a little bit.

I run an independent company, Knockout Entertainment. We've always come out with records that had a concept that impacted really, really, really hard.