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Spotify stresses me the hell out.
Spotify will dramatically change my industry.
'Me Like Yuh' got, like, 20 million plays on Spotify.
My Spotify consists of... definitely Juice WRLD. Comethazine. Ty$.
Spotify is a platform: it could be expanded to other types of content.
Ever since Napster I've dreamt of building a product similar to Spotify.
I'm so grateful to Spotify for the enormous support to the reggaeton movement.
With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
I was brought onboard to strengthen the bridge between Spotify and the music community.
I use Spotify to listen to music when I am taking a shower and when I am doing projects.
Spotify wants to make consuming music simpler and at the same time pay the rights owners.
With iTunes and Spotify and Pandora and this and that, you don't need to buy CDs any more.
The facts show that the music industry was much better off before Spotify hit these shores.
I think Spotify is honestly just another one of Sean Parker's ways of ripping musicians off.
With Spotify, I think people are discovering a lot of artists they might not discover otherwise.
Daniel Ek, the C.E.O. of Spotify, is a rock star of the tech world, but he is not long on charisma.
Sure, we all like listening to music on vinyl, but that doesn't mean streaming music on Spotify is bad.
I've really never discovered a band from Spotify or anything. I've really only discovered it from friends.
Back before Napster and Spotify, we toured to promote record sales. Now we make records to promote tour dates.
People are experimenting with streaming, with subscription services, whether it's a Spotify or a Pandora or a Rdio.
I honestly believe going independent is the future. Social is changing, Spotify is changing, everything is changing.
The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'
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.
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 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.
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.
Whenever you put out music, you're just rolling the dice, and the nice thing with Spotify is they're willing to roll them with you.
I'm trying my best to keep things exactly the same. Spotify hasn't changed my process other than doubling up. We do twice a week now.
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.
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.
Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.
The owner of Spotify is worth something like 3 billion dollars ... he's richer than Paul McCartney and he's 30 and he's never written a song.
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.
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.
Spotify - I met those guys before they launched in America and was wildly excited about the idea. 'Wow, this is all the music in the world, for a flat fee.'
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.
Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks can hear it risk-free.
With Spotify and all those streaming services, you don't get paid anything. You have to be, like, Madonna or something to actually make a real royalty from that.
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.
What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.
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.
I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.
I have a song coming with blackbear. He's a huge artist, I would say in the dark-pop scene. He has also collaborated with a lot of hip-hop artists. He's huge on Spotify.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
If I make a song, and it's my song, like 'Lean On,' we're going to make money off the synchs, the Spotify, and we get to headline festivals on it. That's the model I want to explore.