More From Daniel Ek
- "There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music."
- "I had two passions growing up – one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two – and there was Spotify."
- "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."
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- "Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it’s very hard to teach racism to a teenager who’s listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It’s hard to say, ‘That guy is less than you.’ The kid is like, ‘I like that guy, he’s cool. How is he less than me?"― Jay-Z
- "It’s really cool to know that you’ve put something together that isn’t for a particular audience. It’s so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us."― David Krumholtz
- "The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise."― Darren Criss