61 Quotes by Daniel Ek

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.

We're focused on growing the pie so the artists can go back to making a meaningful amount of money.

Spotify wants to make consuming music simpler and at the same time pay the rights owners.

I'm just interested in building a company that doesn't necessarily change lives but adapts people's behaviour.

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.

Spotify is a platform: it could be expanded to other types of content.

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

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.

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.