Zitat des Tages von Daniel Ek:
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.
Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.
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.
This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.
At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.
Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.
I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.
At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.
The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'
