Admire Quote by David Massengill

I am a balladeer. People fall in love to ballads, and that is what makes the world go round.

— Engelbert Humperdinck

That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it.…

— Roger McGuinn

I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.

— William Shakespeare

I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection.

— Pattiann Rogers

I fell in love with poetry through storytelling, so my poetry tends to be fairly narrative. I like characters, I like having a beginning,…

— Sarah Kay

I have fallen deeply in love with songs - musical theatre songs included - over the years, and this experience has taught me to…

— Alice Ripley

I'm a great lover of ballads.

— Ry Cooder

I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.

— Josh Segarra

When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.

— Hannah Simone

I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it -…

— Robert Hunter

I love a good cheesy power ballad. They make me feel whole.

— Peaches