Ballads Quotes

94 Ballads quotes by 82 unique authors

I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance. — Namie Amuro
A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss — Chrissie Hynde
True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature. — Unknown Author
Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time... Ballads, polonaises, even a whole concerto… — Claude Debussy
Fergie will sing ballads to the dogs and they'll sit there rapt. You know your wife's a star when she keeps the dogs entertained for… — Josh Duhamel
I have decided long ago that my songs and ballads would not get the hugs and kisses of the capitalistic experts. — Woody Guthrie
I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing ofrags and patches, of ballads, songs and… — Julian Sands
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
It’s hard to pin down what makes Weiss’ music so distinctive. Perhaps it’s that even in the ballads, the tone is upbeat, the outlook positive.… — Carlo Wolff
Actually when I'm depressed or feeling down, I seem to play quiet music and enjoy the time. So I listen to a lot of ballads… — Kim Tae-yeon
In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer! — Thia Megia
From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and… — Cat Power
My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads. — Pia Toscano
I'd like to do a pop album with an R and B influence. I definitely want to have those big ballads with the uptempo hits… — Pia Toscano
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
It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it.… — Norah Jones
I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs. — Charles Kelley
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 also plan to release a ballads collection. — Vinnie Vincent
I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers. — William Shakespeare
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
Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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