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
The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines… — Charles Stuart Calverley 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
Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
“we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular way in which we have been accustomed to… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and… — Rita Coolidge 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
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 didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was… — Shane Filan 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
Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
After tea, we discussed a variety of topics before the fire; and Mrs. Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a… — Charles Dickens 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
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
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
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
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
It was very romantic. It's all in the song, The Ballad of John and Yoko. If you want to know how it… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I like "God Give Me the Strength" very much. It's not really a blues and to call it a ballad is absurd.… — Dick Taylor Copy Share Image
Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time... Ballads, polonaises, even… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Lee Morgan used to stand behind me when I was playing a ballad and he'd be hollering, "Play the pretty notes, man,… — Gary Bartz Copy Share Image
Well first of all, I'm a singer. I sing since I talk. So the great ballad singers, the people that sang with… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
It’s hard to pin down what makes Weiss’ music so distinctive. Perhaps it’s that even in the ballads, the tone is upbeat,… — Carlo Wolff Copy Share Image
Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a… — Shirley Horn Copy Share Image
The fact I wasn't getting off made me realize that I really had to take a hard look at it and at… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Basically I see that song as a bunch of images which I threw together to represent the fact that I was seeing… — George Michael Copy Share Image
In my early 20s, I had this idea that I was going to front a band, like Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin.… — Pat Benatar Copy Share Image
