Ellie Goulding Quotes

I quite like American music, like The Fray - I'm a massive fan of them - and The Killers. I also like more acoustic stuff like Ed Sheeran; I like this English songwriter James Morrison and another singer called Ben Howard.

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

I love everything from country to alternative to Blink-182 and '90s music to Dave Matthews.

I love pop music, but I love pop music that does something a little bit different.

I'm trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It's popular music: it's everything for everybody.

I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to our label right now; they're called The Sounds. They're kind of like a new-wave pop band.

I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.

Babymetal's music is kind of - no one else creates this kind of music. When Babymetal first started, we wanted to give the impression of like, 'What the heck?!'

The Weeknd's 'Can't Feel My Face' is very experimental. It's pop meets urban meets indie meets alternative.

My particular space has always been quite unique in popular music. I have a background in R&B and hard rock and straight pop, but I never went all the way with any of those genres.

I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there.

The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a very, very different sound compared to a lot of their contemporaries at the time.

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

I would love to play with Rufus Wainwright. He's one of my favorite songwriters.

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

The grunge scene is not what I'm interested in.

I'm always into rock n' roll and indie rock.

PC Music is a really post-modern attempt at pop.

I never started out as an R&B singer. I grew up on all types of music - jazz, rock, pop, country, folk - and I wanted to bring that to my stage.

There should be a whole book written about that one word: country. What does that mean, country? It's such a huge umbrella. I would hope that what makes it country is that it all starts with a song. The story being told in three and a half minutes that is not being told on another station.

Rock and ambient music might as well reside on opposite sides of the galaxy, so it's almost shocking when a band like Deerhunter melds the two so effectively.

I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock.

You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope.

I enjoy independent music, even more than Bollywood.

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.