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
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'm not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see… — Marty Robbins Copy Share Image
I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing of rags and patches,… — Julian Sands 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 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
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 realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock,… — Van Morrison 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
Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a… — Shirley Horn 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
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
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
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
I like "God Give Me the Strength" very much. It's not really a blues and to call it a ballad is absurd.… — Dick Taylor Copy Share Image
Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
“we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular way in which we have been accustomed to… — William Wordsworth 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
The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines… — Charles Stuart Calverley Copy Share Image
A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock,… — Thalia 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
I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
I grew up singing ballads, but what I really wanted to get into was the mainstream music on the radio because I… — Jessica Sanchez 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
Years ago, I wanted to be like the girl Ne-Yo. You know, with the mid-tempo ballads - I come from the Babyface… — Keri Hilson Copy Share Image
I've sung since I talked, when I'm two, but what I sang was ballads, because it's very hard to do a dance… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend.… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been… — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm a ballad queen for sure... I don't dig dance stuff very much but I seem to hit the charts with… — Phyllis Hyman 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 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
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
Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
All of my favorite songs can bring me to tears. Some are rock, some are blues, some are love ballads. That's why… — Kelly Blatz Copy Share Image
one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which… — Rebecca West 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
I started singing before I started talking. And that's the God's honest truth. I think it was something that I've always loved… — Millie Bobby Brown Copy Share Image
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 not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see what I can do. I find out the best I can do is stay with ballads.” quote by Marty Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c23/marty-robbins-42142_ballads_i-m-not-a-real-good-musician-but-i-can-w_2145504.jpg)
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