Daniel Ek Quotes
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.

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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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The labor movement is a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies determined by ourselves...
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You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
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Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.
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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.