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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Democratically
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- End Of The Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.
- Service
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'
- Nov 07, 2020
Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Ambition
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at Adele, the reason she did so well was she created great music. It wasn't about a clever marketing trick.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Buying sports cars, going to expensive nightclubs, spraying people with champagne and things like that - what I learnt is that it wasn't for me, and, in fact, I feel pretty empty after doing that.
- Library
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to criticize someone who's hugely successful.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020