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“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.”

Quote by Daniel Ek

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Daniel Ek

Daniel Ek is a Swedish entrepreneur known for his role in founding and leading the music streaming service Spotify. Born on February 21, 1983, Ek has a passion for technology and music from a young age. Before co-founding Spotify, Ek worked at a Swedish startup where he gained valuable experience. more

“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.”

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Author: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.”

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Author:Daniel Ek

“President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.”

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Author:Daniel Ellsberg

“My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.”

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Author:Daniel Ellsberg