Explore Quotes by Daniel Ek

If you write to me and it takes a day for me to write back, don't take it personally.

I had always wanted to belong, and I had been thinking that this was going to get solved when I had money, and instead, I had no idea how I wanted to live my life. And no one teaches you what to do after you achieve financial independence. So I had to confront that.

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

I get to meet really interesting people.

What we do is wake up every morning and think about how we get more music out to people; how do we get better music? We breathe, eat, and sleep music.

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.

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.

The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'

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

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.

I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.

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.

Piracy was kind of hard: It took a few minutes to download a song. It was kind of cumbersome. You had to worry about viruses. It's not like people want to be pirates. They just want a great experience.

We look at the sharing of music as really, really important for our business.

I listen to jazz, pop, rock, R&B. It really doesn't matter to me.

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

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.

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.

It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.

People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

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.