Ballad Quotes
39 quotes by 33 authors
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A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.
— William Wordsworth
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I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.
— William Shakespeare
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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
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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
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To me, ballads are special, because you can have a pop song that’ll be know for three weeks and then you’ll hear nothing else about…
— Michael Jackson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss
— Chrissie Hynde
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But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.
— John Fogerty
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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
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In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!
— Thia Megia
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: