I'm not really good at writing sad sappy ballads. In terms of the lyrics not matching the vibe of the music, that's… — Mac DeMarco 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
From all the years that I've been in the business, you know that ballads are what impact. Mid-tempos are great, you can… — Tracy Lawrence Copy Share Image
My sound definitely pays a lot of homage to the Nineties, but not just the dance music. There's also breakbeats, R&B, the… — Kiesza 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
Maybe you could put it out there that I don't have a built-in dislike of ballads. That was kind of the reputation… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those… — Sammy Hagar 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
Lee Morgan used to stand behind me when I was playing a ballad and he'd be hollering, "Play the pretty notes, man,… — Gary Bartz Copy Share Image
Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time... Ballads, polonaises, even… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Well first of all, I'm a singer. I sing since I talk. So the great ballad singers, the people that sang with… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
It’s hard to pin down what makes Weiss’ music so distinctive. Perhaps it’s that even in the ballads, the tone is upbeat,… — Carlo Wolff Copy Share Image
This summer-sweet night is only one minute upon one minute upon another Beautiful cacophony, sugar upon lips, dancing to exhaustion I thought… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned… — Conrad Aiken 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
When I was making my second record, I was in studio, and I was like, 'No more ballads! Absolutely not!' And somebody… — Chris Young Copy Share Image
I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing ofrags and patches, of… — Julian Sands Copy Share Image
People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
Obviously the trouble with having a hit with something like a cover of a ballad, you attract a whole new set of… — Tracey Thorn Copy Share Image
The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
After tea, we discussed a variety of topics before the fire; and Mrs. Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was… — Shane Filan Copy Share Image
I've become really interested in the landscape but not as landscape but more as it relates to mood and how we live… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some… — Aaliyah Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to… — Honore de Balzac 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
The music I really like to get off on is the old rhythm 'n' blues and rock 'n' roll stuff... that's what… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Now ballads, I can mess around and get up on somebody on a ballad. People ain't seen it yet, but I can… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
Tis a morning pure and sweet, And a dewy splendour falls On the little flower that clings To the turrets and the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson 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
“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
