Ballad Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“If you write anything meaningful over there, June, keep it far away from this city. They will turn a story about glue-addicted gypsy children…

— Annie Ward

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,…

— William Shakespeare

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

Everybody loves a sad ballad because it's cathartic. For artists, in a lot of ways, that's sort of our therapy sessions is when you're…

— Tim McGraw

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

If you are the lantern, I am the flame; If you are the lake, then I am the rain; If you are the desert,…

— Cecilia Dart-Thornton

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…

— Al Jarreau

I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off…

— Rita Coolidge

No one wants to hear me crooning a ballad.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

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…

— Michael Jackson

For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.

— Samuel Lover

“It's the ballads I like best, and I'm not talking about the clichéd ones where a diva hits her highest note or a rock…

— Stephanie Kuehnert

I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung…

— William Shakespeare

My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.

— Bonnie Raitt

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…

— Phyllis Hyman