Art Quote by Daniel Ek

The owner of Spotify is worth something like 3 billion dollars ... he's richer than Paul McCartney and he's 30 and he's never written a song.

— Patrick Carney

I think overall, and this isn't specific to Spotify or any streaming service or any label... when you consider the overall value chain of…

— Troy Carter

There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between record labels, publishing companies and artists [about the compensation they get from streaming services] Spotify is…

— Sean Parker

With Spotify and all those streaming services, you don't get paid anything. You have to be, like, Madonna or something to actually make a…

— Ty Segall

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

— Daniel Ek

If you look at something like Spotify, many record labels are investors in the company. So from that standpoint, the money is all going…

— Om Malik

Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two…

— Sean Parker

Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks…

— David Byrne

What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not…

— Beck

I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and…

— Patrick Carney

Music has lot of money but labels are earning it all.

— Aditya Narayan

Spotify was one of the first services that actually focuses on the consumer because they don't have to spend hundreds of dollars a year…

— Troy Carter