Ballads Quote by Julian Sands

I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing of rags and patches, of ballads,…

— Julian Sands

A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!

— Walter Raleigh

I am a troubadour, a wandering minstrel.

— Leo Sayer

Your roots, your family, your friends all become so much more important to you as you get older, especially if you are a wandering…

— Amanda Donohoe

There was a time in medieval England when they had wandering minstrels ... A wandering minstrel would have been Frank Sinatra's counterpart had he…

— Frank Sinatra, Jr

I have the instincts of a minstrel rather than those of a scrivener. There you have it. We are not of the same trade…

— John Steinbeck

America sometimes resembles, at least from the point of view of a black man, an exceedingly monotonous minstrel show; the same dances, same music,…

— Anonymous

If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.

— Jack Vance

We need to look beyond the obvious. Yes, there are minstrel images in hip-hop. Yes, there are demeaning, anti-racist, misogynistic and homophobic representations. We…

— Bakari Kitwana

Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled song? No…

— Neltje Blanchan

The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theatre of his own age; but those of a Scott or a Shakspeare will…

— William H. Prescott

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

— Neil Gaiman