Ballads Quotes

94 Ballads quotes by 82 unique authors

In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I… — Sammy Hagar
Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his… — Douglas MacArthur
That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic group of songs. You do have… — Reba McEntire
Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to… — Willie Nelson
I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes… — Elvis Presley
My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad. — Bonnie Raitt
Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk… — Bonnie Raitt
Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time. — Henry Rollins
The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It… — Radhanath Swami
I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn. — Sam Taylor-Wood
Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left… — Thomas Pynchon
In eternity this world will be like Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the universe, the ballad… — Marilynne Robinson
Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up those reins… — Chuck Palahniuk
Tis a morning pure and sweet, And a dewy splendour falls On the little flower that clings To the turrets and the walls; 'Tis a… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt;… — Douglas MacArthur
This summer-sweet night is only one minute upon one minute upon another Beautiful cacophony, sugar upon lips, dancing to exhaustion I thought of you, before… — Maggie Stiefvater
There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the… — Oliver Sacks
If we hooked up, he could write me ballads and stuff. You gotta admit, nothing's sexier than a guy who writes music. — Becca Fitzpatrick
I swear that woman had a previous career as a death-hunter selling tragic ballads down around the Seven Dials," said Will. "And I do wish… — Cassandra Clare

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