Ezra Koenig Quotes

Ever since Napster I've dreamt of building a product similar to Spotify.

I love Apple Music. I helped build Apple Music. It will always be a very, very big part of my life and part of the journey.

Spotify was one of the first services that actually focuses on the consumer because they don't have to spend hundreds of dollars a year on music.

Spotify - I met those guys before they launched in America and was wildly excited about the idea. 'Wow, this is all the music in the world, for a flat fee.'

I find so much new music I didn't know about on my Sonos.

I think Spotify really does help. If you're going with the evolution of music these days, it's only becoming more and more popular and I don't think it's something to be shunned.

The addition of Beats will make our music lineup even better, from free streaming with iTunes Radio to a world-class subscription service in Beats, and of course buying music from the iTunes Store as customers have loved to do for years.

With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

I think when you go to a store and you go to the Justin Timberlake page and stream it from there, that's great, but that means you went to the store. iTunes Radio lets you discover it without you having to think about it.

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.

I remember, when I was in college, an anonymous donor gave Stanford students a year of 'Yahoo Music Engine'.

People are experimenting with streaming, with subscription services, whether it's a Spotify or a Pandora or a Rdio.

Apple Music is a big idea, and it's going to take some time to fulfill its overall dream.

I really like streaming services. It's a great way for people to find your music.

I'm so grateful to Spotify for the enormous support to the reggaeton movement.

There's a lot of people out there - like, a lot of people out there - that wouldn't know our music if it wasn't for Spotify.

I love iTunes. I love downloading music.

We're trying to make the music service a cultural point of reference, and that's why we're making video. We're making video for our Apple Music customers and our future customers.

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'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?

YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians - although it's harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it.

Someone asked me the other day what my favourite record shop was, and I said YouTube.

File sharing is our radio; that's the way people hear our stuff.

I kind of date my musical discovery back to when I was 13 years old, getting my iTunes account and using that as a major tool to discover new music.

The difference between Spotify and Internet radio services like Pandora is that Spotify is interactive. You can sample the complete catalogue of most artists' recordings.