Ballad Quotes

39 quotes by 33 authors

A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy. — William Wordsworth
I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. — William Shakespeare
Besides my fast and slooow songs, I further divide my work into three main song types: the ballad or story song, the variation on a… — David Massengill
I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance. — David Massengill
To me, ballads are special, because you can have a pop song thatâ€™ll be know for three weeks and then youâ€™ll hear nothing else about… — Michael Jackson
I got a chance to get an actual label. IÂ performed this slow song, this ballad I have. I just remember going to the first… — Chris Brown
I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first… — LaToya London
Oh, I'm a ballad queen for sure... I don't dig dance stuff very much but I seem to hit the charts with it. Go figure... — Phyllis Hyman
To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little unusual… — Al Jarreau
A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss — Chrissie Hynde
But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony. — John Fogerty
I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or… — William Shakespeare
In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer! — Thia Megia
The beauty of science fiction is its open canvas. You can hypothesize about any element of the world. It doesn't have to be laser battles… — Duncan Jones
At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length… — James Fenton
I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the… — Rita Coolidge
Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his… — Tom Folsom
I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably. — William Shakespeare
I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these. — Charles Stuart Calverley

Who Wrote These Ballad Quotes

33 authors contributed a total of 39 Ballad Quotes, led by these top contributors: