Ballads Quote by Miles Davis

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins

— Gerry Mulligan

A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him…

— Cannonball Adderley

I'm a great lover of ballads.

— Ry Cooder

Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was always more…

— William Bell

I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.

— Namie Amuro

I've been singing and playing the guitar ever since I can remember.

— Glen Campbell

I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.

— Joe Cocker

I've sung since I talked, when I'm two, but what I sang was ballads, because it's very hard to do a dance track with…

— Gloria Estefan

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,…

— Cat Power

I've always known the kind of songs I wanted to sing and play.

— Hank Williams III

The first song I learned on the guitar was a Kenny Chesney song called 'What I Need to Do'; it was just an easy…

— Sam Hunt

I do all the classics, like Dylan, Kristofferson, Jimmy Reed, Mexican mariachi songs, some jazz songs from the '30s. Cole Porter's 'Begin the Beguine,'…

— Harry Dean Stanton