Ballads Quote by William Shakespeare Download Open image “I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.” — William Shakespeare ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ballad Print Ballads Inspirational Life Life Sure Love Love Ballad Print Print Life Song Sure True
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 Copy Share Image
I think it's important for every artist to have that ballad that stands the test of time. — Tulisa Copy Share Image
I am a balladeer. People fall in love to ballads, and that is what makes the world go round. — Engelbert Humperdinck Copy Share Image
Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“A lot of ballads are about the mistakes we inevitably make while trying to figure out how to live our lives.” — Stephanie Kuehnert Copy Share Image
“O never a green leaf whispers, where the green-gold branches swing: O never a song I hear now, where one was wont to sing.… — William Sharp Copy Share Image
We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people. — Kiri Te Kanawa Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
There's a story behind every old ballad or work song or nonsense song that I ever knew. Sometimes it's a fascinating story. A story… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep’st so sound. Julius Caesar (2.1.248-251)” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance. — Namie Amuro Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Maybe you could put it out there that I don't have a built-in dislike of ballads. That was kind of the reputation I had… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads. — Jessica Sanchez Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I got a chance to get an actual label. I performed this slow song, this ballad I have. I just remember going to the… — Chris Brown Copy Share Image
My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads. — RuPaul Copy Share Image
My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad. — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“...singing ballads whose words had never known paper but lived only on the rasping edge of their own voices.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
