Anything Quote by Ty Segall

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

There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming…

— Sean Parker

Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists.

— Daniel Ek

Some people see streaming as a bad thing because of the royalty amount paid, but as more and more people get on these services…

— Ryan Merchant

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

It's very difficult to make a living in music these days. All it takes is somebody paying.

— Terry Bozzio

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience…

— John Perry Barlow

I make a lot of money off featuring, doing songs with up-and-coming artists. I can charge someone $10,000 to $15,000 to do one song.

— Rich the Kid

We're not getting paid. We have these great musicians with us and it gives us a real charge. And the audience gives us a…

— Tina Weymouth

Ability to download music for free might not be positive for the artists to get royalties, but in some ways it's still good that…

— Afrika Bambaataa

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 never had huge amounts of money when I was young. I had huge amounts of fame, and I always had the sense of…

— Leonard Cohen