Ballads Quotes

94 quotes by 83 authors

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back? — Christina Aguilera
The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in… — Nick Cave
The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not… — Lascelles Abercrombie
You can separate the men from the boys and ballads. — Coleman Hawkins
A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy. — William Wordsworth
I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads.… — Aaliyah
I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. — William Shakespeare
What we try to do with all of our albums, is live out our musical fantasies in the most honest fashion we know how...We want… — Michael Hutchence
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
Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark. — Brad Paisley
I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people. — Joe Cocker
Ive got a soft spot for really cheesy 1980s ballads by Pat Benatar and Foreigner. When I'm having my make-up put on at 6am and… — Natalie Dormer
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
When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads — Miles Davis
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
People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and… — Alan Lomax
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
No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well… — Wallace Stegner
In my early 20s, I had this idea that I was going to front a band, like Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. I didn't just… — Pat Benatar

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