Top 50 Spotify Quotes

My Spotify consists of… definitely Juice WRLD. Comethazine. Ty$.

SoundCloud took a community-first approach to building its business, prioritizing finding artists to post on its service over making deals with music labels to license their music, the approach taken by Spotify.

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.

Just because you listen to The National, Spotify might tell you that you want to listen to The Lumineers’ music. Well, maybe you don’t.

I feel like Drake could literally put out anything – like, the sound of seagulls over a beat – and it could be the Number One song on Spotify.

I have a weekly playlist on Spotify called Mixtape Mondays. So every Sunday night, I sit around listening to tunes to place. It’s becoming my favorite part of the week.

When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it’s hundreds of millions of streams, I think, ‘Wow, that’s amazing.’ But you don’t really get it. Once you see people in front of you singing along to your songs, it’s real.

My third hire when I came to Spotify was Tiffany Kumar, who came on as our global head of songwriter relations. The whole idea was to put our heads together and figure out how to build and contribute within the songwriting community.

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.

I’m on Spotify and Soundcloud all the time.

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.

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.

I use Spotify to listen to music when I am taking a shower and when I am doing projects.

Companies like Spotify, the new Apple service, and all the others are really going to have to pay artists more. And I think it’s a matter of time; I think a lot of these companies and the individuals that are involved in them realize that as well. They know that artists are not getting what they should be getting.

Spotify favors hits. It’s very much a meritocracy: It’s not like radio, where whatever is being played is what you hear. We offer songs up, and from there, it’s up to consumers to stream the music or not.

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

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.

Even Apple, notorious for keeping a tight grip on its products, allows fierce competitors like Google, Amazon, Spotify, and Microsoft to offer their apps on its phones and tablets.

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.

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.

2015 has been a crazy year for me, and Spotify have supported me right from the start. It’s an honour to be their Breakout Artist of the year, and I’m super excited to see what we can do together in 2016!

I’m so grateful to Spotify for the enormous support to the reggaeton movement.

If you look at something like Spotify, many record labels are investors in the company. So from that standpoint, the money is all going back into the labels.

When I’m getting ready, I’ll listen to ’80s music on Spotify just to wake me up and put me in the mood. I like that it’s cheesy.

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.’

I’ve really never discovered a band from Spotify or anything. I’ve really only discovered it from friends.

There’s a lot of people out there – like, a lot of people out there – that wouldn’t know our music if it wasn’t for Spotify.

The insomnia just perpetuates. I have one bad night, then I get it in my head that I can’t sleep. I’ve been trying these meditation tapes – there are a couple on Spotify – and they’re meant to calm you. But they don’t seem to work.

The facts show that the music industry was much better off before Spotify hit these shores.

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.

With places like Spotify and YouTube broadcasting these days, you get a track made in San Francisco broadcasting in London moments later, so it’s more global now.

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

I’m so thankful for ‘Backseat’ because it’s doing so much. It’s almost at two million listens on Spotify. It’s changed my life. It was the song that Dreamville really pushed and they just really made it explode, and I’m just so thankful.

Ever since Apple Music, Spotify, and all of those things came around, we can choose whatever we want to listen to. Before then, it was all controlled, but now, everybody listens to everything.

I think Spotify really does help. If you’re going with the evolution of music these days, it’s only becoming more and more popular and I don’t think it’s something to be shunned.

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.

I always looked askance at Pandora and Spotify, regarding both as a passive means of experiencing music; they feed you music they presume you will like, and eventually you like it.

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.

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

I grew up in Mountain Pine, Arkansas. You get no more country than where I grew up. But I also grew up in the Napster / iTunes / Spotify/ iHeart Radio era, and so I see that everything is influenced by everything else, and that’s what country music is now.

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

I honestly believe going independent is the future. Social is changing, Spotify is changing, everything is changing.

When you listen to music through Spotify, you don’t own the song, even though you might be able to listen to it at any time.

Spotify, Tidal, and even YouTube, to a degree, are vast and rich troves of music, but they primarily function as search engines organized by algorithms. You typically have to know what you’re looking for in order to find 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.

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.

The fact that ‘Honey, I’m Good’ made such a splash and that people were catching it on radio, on Spotify, on Pandora, it’s driving everybody to go hear the album.

My song ‘Nevermind’ was named after Nirvana’s album, so when I had to choose a cover for my Spotify Singles session, choosing ‘Like A Stone’ by Audioslave was the natural next choice, as I grew up constantly listening to the song.

I don’t look at Spotify or Rdio or any of these guys as a direct competitor: I look at other forms of entertainment as the competitor.

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