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
“Sorry to break your fairytale, Little Fox, but ballads don't end happily, and neither do the two of us.” — Stephanie Garber Copy Share Image
Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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'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
The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and… — Nick Cave 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
I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. — William Shakespeare 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
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
In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them. — Kate Smith 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 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
I'd hear some beautiful Sade or Kings Of Convenience ballad remixed in a club, and I liked that these simple little songs… — Feist 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
Mr. Bucchino occupies a special niche. His flowing, finely made piano ballads describe an urban single life in which relationships come and… — Stephen Holden 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'm not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin',' I want to… — Olly Murs Copy Share Image
“A lot of ballads are about the mistakes we inevitably make while trying to figure out how to live our lives.” — Stephanie Kuehnert 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
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 laughed and pointed out that "Hash Browns Mean Nothing Without You" was a pretty good name for a band. "Or a… — John Green 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
