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The beauty of science fiction is its open canvas. You can hypothesize about any element of the world. It doesn't have to be laser battles and things exploding, you can be JG Ballad and maybe just change one little thing about the real world and that becomes science fiction. -- Duncan Jones
A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss. -- Chrissie Hynde
But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony. -- John Fogerty
In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer! -- Thia Megia
My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad. -- Bonnie Raitt
There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock. -- Douglas Brinkley
During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs. -- Joan Baez
Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia. -- Tom Folsom
When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me. -- Deborah Cox
Would you believe that Sammy Davis, Jr. taught me how to sing a ballad? 'You can be in an arena,' he said, 'and you should be able to hold their attention.' -- Gladys Knight
I wrote a song with Kara DioGuardi called 'What If,' and it's a really beautiful song. It's kind of like a rock ballad. There's a lot of guitars and drums in it. -- Ashley Tisdale
So I did 'Something Happened on the Way to Heaven' and the original version is a ballad. The original Phil record is uptempo but we slowed it down and made it a ballad. -- Deborah Cox
I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing. -- LaToya London
Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye. -- Douglas MacArthur
At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length of the ballad stanza, the verse of a hymn, and innumerable other kinds of verse. -- James Fenton
You know One Direction do a lot of up tempo songs, but when they did that Ed Sheeran song 'Little Things,' that was probably their biggest song off their last album, so it shows you that a ballad never goes out of fashion. -- Shane Filan
I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me. -- Rita Coolidge
Now ballads, I can mess around and get up on somebody on a ballad. People ain't seen it yet, but I can mess around and get up in there. I've had Ruben Studdard up in my house, Brian McKnight, Tank. Every once in a while I throw down with them. -- Jamie Foxx
I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job. -- Olly Murs
I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to write a sort of subversive, alternative ballad,' like Lou Reed does so well with 'Perfect Day.' And I really loved 'Video Games' - at the time, it hadn't really got as big, but it's a classic song; you can't deny it. -- Bat for Lashes
A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss -- Chrissie Hynde
No one wants to hear me crooning a ballad. -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy. -- William Wordsworth
For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in. -- Samuel Lover
That was the ballad of suburbia: give me loud to drown out the silence. -- Stephanie Kuehnert
The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these. -- Charles Stuart Calverley
I sang my song called "In This Song." David Foster wrote the song for me. I thought that I should sing a ballad song. -- Charice Pempengco
I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance. -- David Massengill
Oh, I'm a ballad queen for sure... I don't dig dance stuff very much but I seem to hit the charts with it. Go figure... -- Phyllis Hyman
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. -- William Shakespeare
Most of my records are very dense, composition-heavy, and there's bits of different kinds of music like an acoustic ballad, instrumental trio pieces, and vocal tracks. -- Steve Vai
I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In eternity this world will be like Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the universe, the ballad they sing in the streets. -- Marilynne Robinson
That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times. -- Thomas Hardy
To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message. -- Al Jarreau

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