Ellie Goulding Quotes

I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

If you don't have any ties to the music industry, you just love 'American Idol,' you can sit there and do exactly what you do in your living room, which is stare at them and judge them.

I watched a couple of films I was in and thought, 'Those are pretty close to what we wanted them to be. I feel actually weirdly OK with it all. I can still see flaws in what I'm doing, but I think I delivered. I think I improved the film with my presence.'

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

The weird thing about rap is that you don't get compared in the same way that athletes do, even though it's probably the most competitive sport in music. In basketball, they look at a player and say: 'This guy was the best in his prime at this sport.' But in rap it's not until you're dead or retired that people think about it like that.

I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.

I hope I don't give music a bad name.

I'm sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music. If the music is there, then they did their job, and I'll enjoy the CD.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful.

I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.

I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.

I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.

I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

I hope my music sets up the platform for me to be able to do lots of things - to have a cowboy-boot line, maybe, or do a perfume or makeup deal.

I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

Talent is talent, but fashion is separate, and it shouldn't be used to judge me as a singer.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

How can we say any one actor's work was better than another's?