Years ago, I wanted to be like the girl Ne-Yo. You know, with the mid-tempo ballads - I come from the Babyface… — Keri Hilson Copy Share Image
I grew up singing ballads, but what I really wanted to get into was the mainstream music on the radio because I… — Jessica Sanchez Copy Share Image
I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
I love rock ballads, and I'm kind of in emotional turmoil, being ill and high, so I start to sing to the… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm a ballad queen for sure... I don't dig dance stuff very much but I seem to hit the charts with… — Phyllis Hyman Copy Share Image
For a while, it was something to try to push at people, playing old murder ballads and being upset about everything I… — Frank Fairfield Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some… — Aaliyah Copy Share Image
To me, ballads are special, because you can have a pop song that’ll be know for three weeks and then you’ll hear… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
This summer-sweet night is only one minute upon one minute upon another Beautiful cacophony, sugar upon lips, dancing to exhaustion I thought… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I've become really interested in the landscape but not as landscape but more as it relates to mood and how we live… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Maybe you could put it out there that I don't have a built-in dislike of ballads. That was kind of the reputation… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
I'm glad people think I'm a badass. I'm a rock and roller, and I'm an R&B and a blueswoman. I don't do… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
When I was making my second record, I was in studio, and I was like, 'No more ballads! Absolutely not!' And somebody… — Chris Young Copy Share Image
Obviously the trouble with having a hit with something like a cover of a ballad, you attract a whole new set of… — Tracey Thorn Copy Share Image
People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing ofrags and patches, of… — Julian Sands Copy Share Image
In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
I dated someone in the '90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, 'That just sounds so… — Hannah Simone Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In eternity this world will be like Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In my player, I have a Luis Miguel CD as well as a Brian McKnight CD. I'm known for my very romantic… — Luis Fonsi Copy Share Image
“She dreamt in shades of amethyst, drinking the deep purple elixir in ballads of wood nymphs, tiptoeing by elves that hid in… — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
You know One Direction do a lot of up tempo songs, but when they did that Ed Sheeran song 'Little Things,' that… — Shane Filan Copy Share Image
I have ideas of subjects and atmospheres that I love. I either want to go in a tougher, stronger direction or do… — Charlotte Gainsbourg Copy Share Image
Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs… — Kenny Rogers Copy Share Image
You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine -… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock,… — Thalia Copy Share Image
