I love ballads by Brian Anderson and pop/rock by Richard…

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

During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there…

— Joan Baez

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

— Engelbert Humperdinck

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

“I don’t think anybody’s ever written a song called, “There’s urine on the couch, and the remote control is in the shower.” I would…

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Bonnie Raitt

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

— RuPaul

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

— Chris Brown

People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads…

— Alan Lomax

Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was always more…

— William Bell

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

— Jessica Sanchez

Maybe you could put it out there that I don't have a built-in dislike of ballads. That was kind of the reputation I had…

— Joe Perry

I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock, jazz. I…

— Van Morrison

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

— Namie Amuro

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

— William Shakespeare