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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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" I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A playlist can be very versatile, almost like a programming language. "

" I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better. "

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

" I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services. "

" I'm just interested in building a company that doesn't necessarily change lives but adapts people's behaviour. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you. "

" We really do believe that we can improve the world, one song at a time. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I was the first real generation to have their teens on the Internet. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "