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• ‟ Spotify was one of the first services that actually focuses on the consumer because they don't have to spend hundreds of dollars a year on music.

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• ‟ The primary plan is to let the music speak for itself.

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• ‟ The music industry really is a meritocracy on a creative level.

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• ‟ There's less clutter in the beverage category than in the music category. A lot less clutter.

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• ‟ Coming from the music business and seeing the transition from artists to fans, fans to consumers, it's really about understanding the psychology of why people want to associate with your brand.

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• ‟ I was brought onboard to strengthen the bridge between Spotify and the music community.

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• ‟ Technology is going to play a huge part in tomorrow's music business. And the companies that will win are going to be the most equipped to understand how to use data to further an artist's career.

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• ‟ Music is one of those businesses in which, if you're talented and hustle hard enough, you can make it - specifically as an entrepreneur. If you look as far back as Berry Gordy, Russell Simmons, Andre Harrell, L.A. Reid, and Sean 'Diddy' Combs, there's a whole lineage of successful black entrepreneurs who have built their own companies from scratch.

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• ‟ I think overall, and this isn't specific to Spotify or any streaming service or any label... when you consider the overall value chain of the music industry and how important the songwriter is to the business - I think there needs to be another look at the value chain.

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• ‟ I think, as an industry, we should be supportive of a broad subscription model and not do anything to jeopardize the potential health of the music business - because we're not out of the woods yet.

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• ‟ Music as a whole industry is growing exponentially, but in terms of the actual music file, when you look at the actual value there, to me, 'The Beatles' catalog should be worth more than Spotify.

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• ‟ The way consumers interact with music is different now. It's not an albums business anymore; it's a singles business again, and the industry has gone through that before.

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• ‟ I bring in the record label who distributes the music.

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• ‟ That's all I ever wanted to do in my life was music. And because I was a failed artist, I was actually able to help somebody accomplish their dream was, you know, definitely fulfilling.

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• ‟ No one has bridged that gap between music and technology yet.

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• ‟ My biggest frustration is the lack of scale in the music industry. The fact that no one has sold 100 million copies of an album is frustrating.

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• ‟ When you sit down with Zynga and Google, and they talk about billions of impressions, you think, music has way more of an emotional connection than technology, but we haven't cracked the code.

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• ‟ The more people are listening to music and experiencing it, the more value for both the music companies and the artist, especially when their financial model is built around that . With the music industry, everybody is starting to understand that doesn't begin with a piece of music.

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• ‟ The music industry really has to learn a lesson from the tech industry about what scale means at the end of the day and learning how to monetize.

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