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Ever since Napster I've dreamt of building a product similar to Spotify. -- Sean Parker
With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends. -- Daniel Ek
I'm down with Spotify. I don't know all the financial details but generally it's a great resource. -- Ezra Koenig
For me, Spotify is not even a necessary evil. It helps me do what I want to do. -- Ed Sheeran
Back before Napster and Spotify, we toured to promote record sales. Now we make records to promote tour dates. -- James McMurtry
Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists. -- Daniel Ek
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
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
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
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 years. -- Sean Parker
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 they're actually fair to artists. -- Patrick Carney
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 playlists and listening to music through it. -- Daniel Ek
I think the next big thing in music, and it's kind of because I come from the tech industry, is actually, I think it's the platform... Spotify is incredibly interesting. I think the platform is becoming the star. -- Brian Chesky
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
Okay, you can stay at home and Spotify, or YouTube, or you can get off your ass and come listen to what real musicians making real music sound like. And, hey, it doesn't have to be me, but if I'm in town, then yeah, you should definitely check me out. -- Nicholas Payton
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. -- 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. -- Daniel Ek
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 returning a HUGE amount of money [to the record labels]. If we continue growing at our current rate in terms of subscriptions and downloads, we'll overtake iTunes in terms of contributions to the recorded music business in under two years. -- Sean Parker
If you get on the radio, people hear it, they buy the record. If you get on Spotify playlist nowadays, people hear it, they buy the record. -- Doug Walters
Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks can hear it risk-free. -- David Byrne
I'm not even fifty yet, but I still feel like Instagram and Spotify - I'm trying to stay with it! It's not easy. The world is going so fast. -- Fisher Stevens
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 working. Something is going to have to give. -- Beck
Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment. -- Taylor Swift
There are a number of start-ups in Europe that are able to reach beyond their own country. Take Spotify - Spotify just in Sweden isn't that interesting compared to Spotify all over the world. -- Bill Maris
Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales. -- Malcolm D. Lee
I'm very excited about my new Spotify account, which gives me access to twenty gazillion songs any time, all the time. The day I opened my account, though, I sat there perplexed. How would I figure out what I wanted to hear? -- Susan Orlean
I feel like as musicians we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what's happening in the mainstream is the last gasp of the old industry. Once that does finally die, which it will, something else will happen, -- Thom Yorke

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