Ballads Quotes · Page 3

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

— Joe Cocker

“A lot of ballads are about the mistakes we inevitably make while trying to figure out how to live our lives.”

— Stephanie Kuehnert

In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!

— Thia Megia

More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.

— John Selden

My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.

— Bonnie Raitt

I don't just do power ballads. I have a lot of up-tempo stuff, too - like 'Can't Fight the Moonlight.'

— Diane Warren

I love ballads. I'm not into fast songs. I love to put my heart and all of my feelings into a song.

— Leah LaBelle

My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads.

— Pia Toscano

If we hooked up, he could write me ballads and stuff. You gotta admit, nothing's sexier than a guy who writes music.

— Becca Fitzpatrick

I swear that woman had a previous career as a death-hunter selling tragic ballads down around the Seven Dials," said Will. "And…

— Cassandra Clare

I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Actually when I'm depressed or feeling down, I seem to play quiet music and enjoy the time. So I listen to a…

— Kim Tae-yeon

Mr. Bucchino occupies a special niche. His flowing, finely made piano ballads describe an urban single life in which relationships come and…

— Stephen Holden

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

I sang my song called "In This Song." David Foster wrote the song for me. I thought that I should sing a…

— Charice Pempengco

I did Bronislaw Kaper's tune. He wrote "On Green Dolphin Street." I mean, I did all those ballads, all them ballads from…

— Miles Davis

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

By the Angel, Bridget’s depressing,” said Henry, setting down his newspaper directly on his plate and causing the edge to soak through…

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Chris Brown

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

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

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

The worst thing for me when I go to a concert is a whole bunch of ballads. You get bored.

— Darius Rucker

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

— Brad Paisley

I would love to make an album full of ballads. For a listener, I want to have variety on there.

— Kristin Chenoweth

You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna)

— Tamora Pierce

A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!

— Walter Raleigh

I do sing ballads, but I'm not a balladeer. I'm not the next Celine Dion.

— Jessica Sanchez

“...singing ballads whose words had never known paper but lived only on the rasping edge of their own voices.”

— Laini Taylor

To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is…

— Al Jarreau

I'm not really good at writing sad sappy ballads. In terms of the lyrics not matching the vibe of the music, that's…

— Mac DeMarco

I dated someone in the '90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, 'That just sounds so…

— Hannah Simone

In eternity this world will be like Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the…

— Marilynne Robinson

I started singing before I started talking. And that's the God's honest truth. I think it was something that I've always loved…

— Millie Bobby Brown

People call me for the ballads. Apparently that's where I've been pigeonholed. But it's really interesting and really fun. It's my favourite…

— Sia Furler

From all the years that I've been in the business, you know that ballads are what impact. Mid-tempos are great, you can…

— Tracy Lawrence

My sound definitely pays a lot of homage to the Nineties, but not just the dance music. There's also breakbeats, R&B, the…

— Kiesza

For a while, it was something to try to push at people, playing old murder ballads and being upset about everything I…

— Frank Fairfield