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• ‟ I realised that you can never legislate away from piracy. Laws can definitely help, but it doesn't take away the problem. The only way to solve the problem was to create a service that was better than piracy and at the same time compensates the music industry - that gave us Spotify.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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

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• ‟ If you look at Adele, the reason she did so well was she created great music. It wasn't about a clever marketing trick.

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• ‟ I don't think we see ourselves as the savior of the music industry.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ We kind of look at music as something very natural in people's lives. I mean, most of us can relate to music in some sort of shape and form, and if you think about it, most of us remember the first time we kissed someone, what kind of music was playing or the song that was playing on our friend's birthday.

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• ‟ Spotify wants to make consuming music simpler and at the same time pay the rights owners.

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• ‟ 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.

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

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• ‟ 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.

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

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.

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• ‟ In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ What we do is wake up every morning and think about how we get more music out to people; how do we get better music? We breathe, eat, and sleep music.

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• ‟ We look at the sharing of music as really, really important for our business.

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