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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

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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

Topics: Able Afford Album Ambition Artists Create Down Five Goal Make Music Should Sit Takes Them Want Years

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If you look at Adele, the reason she did so well was she created great music. It wasn't about a clever marketing trick.

~Daniel Ek

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Buying sports cars, going to expensive nightclubs, spraying people with champagne and things like that - what I learnt is that it wasn't for me, and, in fact, I feel pretty empty after doing that.

~Daniel Ek

Topics: After Buying Car Champagne Doing Empty Expensive Fact Feel Going In Fact Learnt Like Me Nightclubs People Pretty Sports Things I Feel

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I was the first real generation to have their teens on the Internet.

~Daniel Ek

Topics: First Generation Internet Real Teens

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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

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For me, as someone growing up in a working-class suburb in Stockholm, I couldn't afford all the music. So back in '98, '99, I was really thinking about how I could get all the music and do it in a legal way while at the same time compensating the artist.

~Daniel Ek

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It's hard to criticize someone who's hugely successful.

~Daniel Ek

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I'm not saying you can't be successful in the music industry without Spotify. But when I look at the future of music, I don't think scarcity is the model anymore. We have to embrace ubiquity - that music is everywhere.

~Daniel Ek

Topics: Anymore Embrace Everywhere Future Industry Look Model Music Music Industry Saying Scarcity Spotify Successful Think Without You

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We are passionate about making it so that users enjoy the music that they want to enjoy but at the same time fairly compensates artists. That's not the same as saving the music industry.

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Biography

Nationality: Swedish

Type: Businessman

Born: Unknown

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