Daniel Ek Quotes

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• We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible.
• At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.
• I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy…
• I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
• At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.
• I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I…
• This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating…
• There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger…
• Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
• I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it,…
• The value of a company is the sum of the problems you solve.
• Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists.
• I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.
• In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.
• People just want to have access to all of the world's music.
• The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.
• With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
• In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact that almost a third of the…
• It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a…
• Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s…

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