Ballads Quotes

Ballads Quote of the day

Actually when I'm depressed or feeling down, I seem to play quiet music and enjoy the time. So I listen to a lot of ballads and I try to enjoy the time with music.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

Fergie will sing ballads to the dogs and they'll sit there rapt. You know your wife's a star when she keeps the dogs entertained for 20 minutes.

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

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads.

I'd like to do a pop album with an R and B influence. I definitely want to have those big ballads with the uptempo hits as well.

You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.

I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs about social issues.

I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life I'd be Loretta Lynn.

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

People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.

No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.

People call me for the ballads. Apparently that's where I've been pigeonholed. But it's really interesting and really fun. It's my favourite part of the job, writing.

In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.

All of my favorite songs can bring me to tears. Some are rock, some are blues, some are love ballads. That's why I play music - to touch other people as I have been touched.

A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss

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

Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.

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

I'm not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see what I can do. I find out the best I can do is stay with ballads.

When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads

I also plan to release a ballads collection.

True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature.

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.

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

I love rock ballads, and I'm kind of in emotional turmoil, being ill and high, so I start to sing to the song, I turn it up and start to sing.

More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.

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

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

You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

I sang my song called "In This Song." David Foster wrote the song for me. I thought that I should sing a ballad song.

When power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.

Mr. Bucchino occupies a special niche. His flowing, finely made piano ballads describe an urban single life in which relationships come and go... with high expectations, high anxiety and open hearts.

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

You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna)

In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!

There are a lot of murder ballads out there, but most of them are about killing the woman. I was like, "We've gotta turn this around!"

Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean, who doesn't like to watch a nice gory murder film on TV?

I think it'd be great if Prince made an album of just romantic, slow ballads.

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

I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.

No one wants to hear me crooning a ballad.

I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?

I would love to make an album full of ballads. For a listener, I want to have variety on there.

I have ideas of subjects and atmospheres that I love. I either want to go in a tougher, stronger direction or do the opposite: simple ballads.

I think ballads transcend better into my work when I remix something.

If we hooked up, he could write me ballads and stuff. You gotta admit, nothing's sexier than a guy who writes music.

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.