Ek Quotes & Sayings

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. — Daniel Ek

Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists. — Daniel Ek

People just want to have access to all of the world's music. — Daniel Ek

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

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. — Daniel Ek

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. — Daniel Ek

No one wants to wait for tracks to buffer or spend hours searching through a Web site to find their favorite song. — Daniel Ek

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

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

A doctrine like that of the Trinity tells us that the very life of God is a yielding or giving-over into the life of an Other, a 'negation' in the sense of refusing to settle for the idea that normative life or personal identity is to be conceived in terms of self-enclosed and self-sufficient units. The negative is associated with the 'ek-static', the discovery of identity in self-transcending relation. And accordingly, theology itself has to speak in a mode that encourages us to question ourselves, to deny ourselves, in the sense of denying systems and concepts that are the comfortable possession of individual minds. — Rowan Williams

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. — Daniel Ek

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

Begum Para, did I say? Not the Begum Para? The saucy heroine of the silver screen? And why not? This remarkable lady had dropped in from Pakistan to play the part of my grandmother in Shubhadarshini's serial Ek Tha Rusty, based on stores of my childhood. — Ruskin Bond

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

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. — Daniel Ek

But right now we have an advantage of being the number one in music. — Daniel Ek

Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Yet the Kingdom of God in Jesus's teachings is not a celestial kingdom existing on a cosmic plane. Those who claim otherwise often point to a single unreliable passage in the gospel of John in which Jesus allegedly tells Pilate, "My kingdom is not of this world" (John 18:36). Not only is this the sole passage in the gospels where Jesus makes such a claim, it is an imprecise translation of the original Greek. The phrase ouk estin ek tou kosmou is perhaps better translated as "not part of this order/system [of government]." Even if one accepts the historicity of the passage (and very few scholars do), Jesus was not claiming that the Kingdom of God is unearthly; he was saying it is unlike any kingdom or government on earth. — Reza Aslan

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. — Daniel Ek

Shiva had the answer: 'Har Ek Hai Mahadev!' The Meluhans stood astounded. Every single one a Mahadev? 'Har Har Mahadev!' bellowed Shiva. The Meluhans roared. All of us are Mahadevs! — Anonymous

Ruby clapped her hands in glee and gave a comedic wiggle of her head, Bollywood style.

I know the song now, can even sing it, but back then all I heard was the verdant Punjabi, the striking primary colours of the five rivers, the intricate history of a complex land. — Ruth Ahmed

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. — Daniel Ek

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. — Daniel Ek

Yes, I believe in God, but I don't perform a daily puja. I don't have any gurus. Ek baat hai,destiny, koi cheez hai. — Dhirubhai Ambani

Ask yourself: given everything you have to do, is there a way that we can make this better? — Daniel Ek

All it takes, is one leap of faith. — EK Dobbins

Nothing is Lie until you get to know the truth, as nothing is false in Dream until you get to know that i'm Dreamer. — The Ek

The Absolute is not only the Absolute, but also the dialectical movement of finite and infinite. The Absolute is such that it only ever appears to an other. Just as our intuition is an ek-stasis, by which we try to situate ourselves in the Absolute, so too must the Absolute leave itself and make itself in the world. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

'Ek Main Aur Ek Tu' was a very special film for me. Imran and we complement each other very well. He is sugar, and I am spice. — Kareena Kapoor Khan

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. — Daniel Ek

We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible. — Daniel Ek

Then he comes to the brink of a precipitous fall; that is, he comes to the point where he himself will have to be taken as standing-reserve. Meanwhile man, precisely as the one so threatened, exalts himself to the posture of lord of the earth. In this way the impression comes to prevail that everything man encounters exists only insofar as it is his construct. This illusion gives rise in turn to one final delusion: It seems as though man everywhere and always encounters only himself ... In truth, however, precisely nowhere does man today any longer encounter himself, i.e. his essence. Man stands so decisively in attendance on the challenging-forth of Enframing that he does not apprehend Enframing as a claim, that he fails to see himself as the one spoken to, and hence also fails in every way to hear in what respect he ek-sists, from out of his essence, in the realm of an exhortation or address, and thus can never encounter only himself. — Martin Heidegger

The value of a company is the sum of the problems you solve. — Daniel Ek

I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better. — Daniel Ek

I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services. — Daniel Ek

Chakravyuh mein ghusne se pehle,
Before entering the circle of deceit,
kaun tha mein aur kaisa tha,
who I was, and what I was,
yeh mujhe yaad hi na rahega.
I would not remember.
Chakravyuh mein ghusne ke baad,
After entering the circle of deceit,
mere aur chakravyuh ke beech,
(there was) between me and the circle,
sirf ek jaanleva nikat'ta thi,
only a deathly intimacy
iska mujhe pata hi na chalega.
that I never realised. — Dilip Chitre

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. — Daniel Ek

Rah chalta hun toh yeh manzilein kho jati hain,
Har mod par bas tu nazar aati hai;
Kya hai zindgi tere bna, ek pal sochta hu,
Agle he pal yeh zindgi bhi maut nazar aati hai. — Anuj Tiwari

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

it's a fitting salute to a heroine who rose over bad costumes and unflattering cinematography (remember those days of relentless soft-focus?) to become the sole reason many of us watched Hindi films at one time. And all these years on, Madhuri Dixit still makes it look as easy as ek, do, teen. — Baradwaj Rangan

Daniel Ek, the C.E.O. of Spotify, is a rock star of the tech world, but he is not long on charisma. — John Seabrook

EK made it a point to say she "flew" the author to her place. This author is supposedly so much more successful and is the one to contact her to have the book written, but EK had to pay air fair? On top of that, this stranger spent a week or so in her bed, kicking her hubby out? It's just weird. Reads more like an autobiography to me. — E.K. Blair