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 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
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
Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was… — William Bell 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
At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I get to work a lot of times in nightclubs and large theaters, so I wanted to make music that is fun… — Alaska Copy Share Image
I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna… — Laura Bell Bundy 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
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
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
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
Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean,… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
I'm not somebody that has an encyclopedic knowledge of ballads and could sit around a fire and sing songs for three hours.… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our… — Napoleon Bonaparte 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
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
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
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
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
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
I think ballads transcend better into my work when I remix something. — Cedric Gervais Copy Share Image
But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony. — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
“I should have known better than to trust a man who loved power ballads.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Everybody loves a sad ballad because it's cathartic. For artists, in a lot of ways, that's sort of our therapy sessions is… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
I was doing gigs at 16, belting out all the big ballads like Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey. — Sarah Harding Copy Share Image
Fergie will sing ballads to the dogs and they'll sit there rapt. You know your wife's a star when she keeps the… — Josh Duhamel Copy Share Image
I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of… — David Massengill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am a balladeer. People fall in love to ballads, and that is what makes the world go round. — Engelbert Humperdinck Copy Share Image
I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey,… — LaToya London Copy Share Image
One thing all the way through the show to me is boring. I don't care how great the artist is. I find… — George Benson Copy Share Image
