Quotes About Spotify

#1. 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.

Daniel Ek

#2. Daniel Ek, the C.E.O. of Spotify, is a rock star of the tech world, but he is not long on charisma.

John Seabrook

#3. Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks can hear it risk-free.

David Byrne

#4. Back before Napster and Spotify, we toured to promote record sales.
Now we make records to promote tour dates.

James McMurtry

#5. I feel like, as musicians, we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what's happening in the mainstream is the last gasp of the old industry. Once that does finally die, which it will, something else will happen.

Thom Yorke

#6. Elsa learned all about LPs and CDs that afternoon. That was when she worked out why old people seem to have so much free time, because in the olden days until Spotify came along they must have used up almost all their time just changing the track. She

Fredrik Backman

#7. When Spotify launched in the U.S. in 2011, it relied on simple usage-based algorithms to connect users and music, a process known as 'collaborative filtering.' These algorithms were more often annoying than useful.

John Seabrook

#8. 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.

Brian Chesky

#9. The owner of Spotify is worth something like 3 billion dollars ... he's richer than Paul McCartney and he's 30 and he's never written a song.

Patrick Carney

#10. How can you not tweet? How else will people know what you ate for breakfast or what you are listening to on Spotify or what your gamerscore is? Ridiculous. Not tweeting is not an option. I am a dolt for even suggesting it.

Aisha Tyler

#11. What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.

Beck

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

Daniel Ek

#13. Spotify appeared nine years after Napster, the pioneering file-sharing service, which unleashed piracy on the record business and began the cataclysm that caused worldwide revenues to decline from a peak of twenty-seven billion dollars in 1999 to fifteen billion in 2013.

John Seabrook

#14. Okay, you can stay at home and Spotify, or YouTube, or you can get off your ass and come listen to what real musicians making real music sound like. And, hey, it doesn't have to be me, but if I'm in town, then yeah, you should definitely check me out.

Nicholas Payton

#15. 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.

Taylor Swift

#16. There are a number of start-ups in Europe that are able to reach beyond their own country. Take Spotify - Spotify just in Sweden isn't that interesting compared to Spotify all over the world.

Bill Maris

#17. I'm down with Spotify. I don't know all the financial details but generally it's a great resource.

Ezra Koenig

#18. Does this mean that religious consumption will increase online? That could be. We do not know yet, but to expect religion to disappear because of online technology is like expecting people to stop listening to music because Napster, Spotify and Wimp are offering us all the music we want online

Torkel Brekke

#19. Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.

Sean Parker

#20. At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.

Daniel Ek

#21. 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?

Susan Orlean

#22. 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.'

Trent Reznor

#23. That was when she worked out why old people seem to have so much free time, because in the olden days until Spotify came along they must have used up almost all their time just changing the track.

Fredrik Backman

#24. I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them ... but not us.

Calvin Harris

#25. For me, Spotify is not even a necessary evil. It helps me do what I want to do.

Ed Sheeran

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

Sean Parker

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

Daniel Ek

#28. Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists.

Daniel Ek

#29. I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.

Patrick Carney

#30. 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.

Daniel Ek

#31. With iTunes and Spotify and Pandora and this and that, you don't need to buy CDs any more.

Sergio Garcia

#32. 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.

John Seabrook

#33. 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.

Daniel Ek

#34. The subscriptions were working so well, and on top of that, we saw the success of Netflix and Spotify and thought, 'We can create a similar kind of experience for books.'

Trip Adler

#35. 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.

Daniel Ek

#36. Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora ... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.

Malcolm D. Lee

#37. I'm not even fifty yet, but I still feel like Instagram and Spotify - I'm trying to stay with it! It's not easy. The world is going so fast.

Fisher Stevens