Ballads Quotes

“He could inspire ballads. He could inspire wars.”

— Eli Easton

We had always put ballads on all of our albums.

— John Rzeznik

For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.

— Samuel Lover

No one wants to hear me crooning a ballad.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

When power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.

— Jerry Cantrell

You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

— Coleman Hawkins

I always wrote ballads, and I always wrote rockers.

— Eric Carmen

I'm a great lover of ballads.

— Ry Cooder

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.

— Kate Smith

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

— Engelbert Humperdinck

When we do R&B midtempos or ballads, there's an Underdogs sound.

— Harvey Mason, Jr

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

“I should have known better than to trust a man who loved power ballads.”

— Jodi Picoult

Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.

— William Shakespeare

I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.

— Sam Taylor-Wood

Actually when I'm depressed or feeling down, I seem to play quiet music and enjoy the time. So I listen to a…

— Kim Tae-yeon

Mr. Bucchino occupies a special niche. His flowing, finely made piano ballads describe an urban single life in which relationships come and…

— Stephen Holden

I sang my song called "In This Song." David Foster wrote the song for me. I thought that I should sing a…

— Charice Pempengco

To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is…

— Al Jarreau

There are a lot of murder ballads out there, but most of them are about killing the woman. I was like, "We've…

— Valerie June

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey,…

— LaToya London

There's a story behind every old ballad or work song or nonsense song that I ever knew. Sometimes it's a fascinating story.…

— Pete Seeger

On 'Idol,' you have to show off your vocal abilities, so I stuck to the ballads, so I'm glad my first single…

— Jessica Sanchez

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

— Chris Brown

Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs…

— Rosanne Cash

If you are the lantern, I am the flame; If you are the lake, then I am the rain; If you are…

— Cecilia Dart-Thornton

My solo album is different from the Black Eyed Peas albums because I'm a singer first and foremost. There are more ballads…

— Fergie

The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures.…

— Shashi Tharoor

The beauty of science fiction is its open canvas. You can hypothesize about any element of the world. It doesn't have to…

— Duncan Jones

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

“I’m a maker of ballads right pretty I write them right here in the street You can buy them all over the…

— Mark Knopfler

There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery…

— Oliver Sacks

I laughed and pointed out that "Hash Browns Mean Nothing Without You" was a pretty good name for a band. "Or a…

— John Green

The reason I've gotten into script-writing, which was accidental to begin with, was that I found it was a far more effective…

— Nick Cave

“I grew up in a household that was filled with Scottish and Irish ballads. So I think that the complexity and the…

— Franny Billingsley

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

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old…

— Douglas MacArthur