Ellie Goulding Quotes

I love suits, but onstage it's too hot. So, I like a nice T-shirt!

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.

I can't remember the first song I learned to play on bass, but the first song I learned to play on guitar was 'For Your Love' by the Yardbirds. That kind of was the beginning for me. I thought it was a great song and I loved the open chord progression at the beginning of that song.

After 40 years of not playing, I admit I'm totally in love with my guitar. It's a Froggy Bottom acoustic steel string guitar. All I have to do is hit a couple of clean chords and the endorphins are right there. It's like the top of my head has come off and stardust and magic have fallen in.

I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of doing it.

I like to play music; play guitar - I love that. Play some golf in the summer. Just relax, enjoy the summer. That's nice.

I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to play very well, but I enjoyed it.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

I love playing the guitar.

I was 11 years old, and I had been playing classical piano for three years, and suddenly the guitar came and landed in my arms. I fell in love with that instrument, and I still love it today. I love it so much.

Normally, I can get through a whole show with one guitar pick.

I don't know what it would be like to actually play guitar. I've toured with a lot of comedians and it's never been like it is for a rock band.

I mean, playing music at home and writing and hanging out with my guitar is kind of medicinal for me, but when I bring the songs to people on stage, it's very joyous.

I like playing with a live band and I've got my act and we're fine.

Acting has always been my passion. It's always been my love, and I've always done it, since I was a kid.

There’s no romance in the details [of touring] anymore for me. But as soon as we’re walking onstage and until we walk off after the encore, I feel totally alive and completely satisfied with my work.

I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in what I love to do.

There's so much that can be done on the guitar. And that's what is so good about the guitar - everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it's all about.

I was 15 years old when I was in this band; we were called Stag. We used to wear spandex pants and no underwear - we looked like marbles smugglers.

Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater.

I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar.

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

I love drama. My passion is drama. It always has been. I love telling those sorts of stories.

I always have a guitar with me. Actually, I've got several, I play every day. And I enjoy it. I'm never very far away from them. I swear I only ever get a couple days when I'm away from a guitar, and I never like it! There's always one close by, and I play every day. Or I'll be working on something in the studio and play around a bit. It's an extension of me, really.

Acting is not just something I love but a part of who I am.