Daniel Ek

The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with…

— Daniel Ek

The value of a company is the sum of the problems you solve.

— Daniel Ek

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a…

— Daniel Ek

This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's…

— Daniel Ek

At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.

— Daniel Ek

I realised that you can never legislate away from piracy. Laws can definitely help, but it doesn't take away the problem. The…

— Daniel Ek

With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

— Daniel Ek

At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the…

— Daniel Ek

There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we…

— Daniel Ek

It's hard to criticize someone who's hugely successful.

— Daniel Ek

I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.

— Daniel Ek

We are passionate about making it so that users enjoy the music that they want to enjoy but at the same time…

— Daniel Ek

“The Value of the company is the sum of the problems you solve.”

— Daniel EK

I'm not saying you can't be successful in the music industry without Spotify. But when I look at the future of music,…

— Daniel Ek

If you write to me and it takes a day for me to write back, don't take it personally.

— Daniel Ek

We're focused on growing the pie so the artists can go back to making a meaningful amount of money.

— Daniel Ek

I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.

— Daniel Ek

With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter…

— Daniel Ek

I listen to jazz, pop, rock, R&B. It really doesn't matter to me.

— Daniel Ek

We look at the sharing of music as really, really important for our business.

— Daniel Ek

A playlist can be very versatile, almost like a programming language.

— Daniel Ek

Buying sports cars, going to expensive nightclubs, spraying people with champagne and things like that - what I learnt is that it…

— Daniel Ek

Spotify wants to make consuming music simpler and at the same time pay the rights owners.

— Daniel Ek

We kind of look at music as something very natural in people's lives. I mean, most of us can relate to music…

— Daniel Ek

I was the first real generation to have their teens on the Internet.

— Daniel Ek