At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music. Daniel Ek Read Quote
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, but it’s acoustic, or semi-acoustic. Daniel Ek Read Quote
At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today. Daniel Ek Read Quote
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 U.S. population have even heard of Spotify is really because they’ve seen it on Facebook and friends have been sharing. Daniel Ek Read Quote
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 than it’s ever been before. Daniel Ek Read Quote
In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though – Lady Gaga and Britney Spears. Daniel Ek Read Quote
With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company. Daniel Ek Read Quote
My ambition is we want artists to be able to afford to create the music they want to create, and if it takes them five years to sit down and make the album they want to make, they should be able to afford that. That’s my goal. Daniel Ek Read Quote
When I think about music in the future, I don’t make a distinction between what’s radio, what used to be the music library, and so on. Daniel Ek Read Quote
