Daniel Ek Quotes

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

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.

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

I don't look at Spotify or Rdio or any of these guys as a direct competitor: I look at other forms of entertainment as the competitor.

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

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

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.

The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music.

When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.

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.'

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.

I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.

The rise of the iPod meant that digital music became the norm, It's sad, but you can still find the real stuff out there if you look for it!

I am here talking to 'Rolling Stone' because of an iPhone. Music has transformed because of Apple.

I think the cool thing about being alive in 2017 is that you can literally put out music as soon and as frequently as you want to because of streaming services.

You can have the power of your music on your cellphone and reach millions.

In order to continue the growth, we have to go back to embracing technology and the way that people choose to consume music.

Music has changed. You can just throw songs out on iTunes song by song; you don't have to do a whole album.

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.

This is how people are going to listen to music now - streaming. So diversify as a band. It doesn't mean selling your songs to adverts.

I was always kind of against streaming, but I've been traveling so much, and I usually carry a huge hard drive of digital music with me, but I haven't had time to deal with it, so I've been doing streaming. And I had this incredible breakthrough of weightlessness where I've really been loving streaming music.

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.

It's such a changing industry, and I realize that it's become more digital- and singles-driven, but I still love listening to a full record. It's the artist's story captured in 12 or 15 songs.

If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums.

The fact of the matter is that 40 years ago, unless you bought the record, you couldn't hear the music. It was such a narrow track in comparison to today.