Ballads Quote by William Shakespeare

I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do, tearing each…

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

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

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

— 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…

— William Shakespeare

I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock, jazz. I…

— Van Morrison

“...singing ballads whose words had never known paper but lived only on the rasping edge of their own voices.”

— Laini Taylor

People who listen to my records expect the ballads from me. The rock 'n roll is on there because it's another mode of expression.

— Dan Fogelberg

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

— Bonnie Raitt

My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads.

— RuPaul

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

— Namie Amuro

People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads…

— Alan Lomax

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