Ballads Quotes · Page 2

I also plan to release a ballads collection.

— Vinnie Vincent

I'm a great lover of ballads.

— Ry Cooder

I always wrote ballads, and I always wrote rockers.

— Eric Carmen

Ive always loved the tradition of murder ballads.

— Colter Wall

Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads.

— RuPaul

“I should have known better than to trust a man who loved power ballads.”

— Jodi Picoult

I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.

— William Shakespeare

Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I am a balladeer. People fall in love to ballads, and that is what makes the world go round.

— Engelbert Humperdinck

When we do R&B midtempos or ballads, there's an Underdogs sound.

— Harvey Mason, Jr

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.

— Kate Smith

The Raspberries had recorded some ballads on every one of our albums, but after 'Go All The Way' was successful Capital pretty…

— Eric Carmen

Ive got a soft spot for really cheesy 1980s ballads by Pat Benatar and Foreigner. When I'm having my make-up put on…

— Natalie Dormer

Everybody loves a sad ballad because it's cathartic. For artists, in a lot of ways, that's sort of our therapy sessions is…

— Tim McGraw

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

I'd like to do a pop album with an R and B influence. I definitely want to have those big ballads with…

— Pia Toscano

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

— Christina Aguilera

There are a lot of murder ballads out there, but most of them are about killing the woman. I was like, "We've…

— Valerie June

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey,…

— LaToya London

My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs…

— Rosanne Cash

If you are the lantern, I am the flame; If you are the lake, then I am the rain; If you are…

— Cecilia Dart-Thornton

The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the…

— Douglas MacArthur

Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give…

— Chuck Palahniuk

My solo album is different from the Black Eyed Peas albums because I'm a singer first and foremost. There are more ballads…

— Fergie

The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures.…

— Shashi Tharoor

I got a chance to get an actual label. I performed this slow song, this ballad I have. I just remember going…

— Chris Brown

I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen…

— William Shakespeare

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old…

— Douglas MacArthur

Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

— Jessica Sanchez

A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.

— William Wordsworth

I think it'd be great if Prince made an album of just romantic, slow ballads.

— Moby

I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.

— Sam Taylor-Wood

I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.

— Joe Cocker

I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.

— Namie Amuro

“Sorry to break your fairytale, Little Fox, but ballads don't end happily, and neither do the two of us.”

— Stephanie Garber

And when power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.

— Jerry Cantrell

I have decided long ago that my songs and ballads would not get the hugs and kisses of the capitalistic experts.

— Woody Guthrie

You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.

— Miles Davis