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
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
From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western,… — Cat Power Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There was a conflict - the actual putting together of the reality of the situation didn't seem to gel. I'd been doing… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the… — Tom Folsom Copy Share Image
I'm interested in feedback and learning what people want. It's a tricky thing for me when I do a set list. You… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
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 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
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 have decided long ago that my songs and ballads would not get the hugs and kisses of the capitalistic experts. — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It's the ballads I like best, and I'm not talking about the clichéd ones where a diva hits her highest note or… — Stephanie Kuehnert Copy Share Image
Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent,… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby! — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
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 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
What we try to do with all of our albums, is live out our musical fantasies in the most honest fashion we… — Michael Hutchence 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
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
