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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. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels. -- John Selden
Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark. -- Brad Paisley
I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance. -- Namie Amuro
In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them. -- Kate Smith
I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people. -- Joe Cocker
I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money. -- Elvis Presley
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. -- Sammy Hagar
Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place. -- Willie Nelson
I also plan to release a ballads collection. -- Vinnie Vincent
A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss -- Chrissie Hynde
True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature. -- Francis James Child
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
Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony. -- John Fogerty
I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers. -- William Shakespeare
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 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
I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing ofrags and patches, of ballads, songs and snatches. -- Julian Sands
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
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
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 back in the Seventies. But I've come around. Ballads have become something of an acquired taste. -- Joe Perry
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
I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good. -- Shane Filan
And when power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again. -- Jerry Cantrell
When we do R&B midtempos or ballads, there's an Underdogs sound. -- Harvey Mason, Jr.
I don't just do power ballads. I have a lot of up-tempo stuff, too - like 'Can't Fight the Moonlight.' -- Diane Warren
Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time. -- Henry Rollins
I love ballads. I'm not into fast songs. I love to put my heart and all of my feelings into a song. -- Leah LaBelle
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. -- Bob Dylan
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. -- Sia Furler
I'm not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin',' I want to make them dance and be happy. -- Olly Murs
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
I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music. -- Laura Bell Bundy
Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off. -- Bonnie Raitt
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
The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures. What makes a country a world leader? Is it population, in which case India is on course to top the charts, overtaking China as the world's most populous country by 2034? -- Shashi Tharoor
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, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me. -- Cat Power
That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic group of songs. You do have some almost pop songs in there, but you do have your traditional country, story songs. You have your ballads, your happy songs, your sad songs, your love songs, and your feisty songs. -- Reba McEntire
The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine. -- Radhanath Swami
The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else. -- Nick Cave
I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs. -- Charles Kelley
You can separate the men from the boys and ballads. -- Coleman Hawkins
When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads -- Miles Davis
When power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.. -- Jerry Cantrell
You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads. -- Miles Davis
I think ballads transcend better into my work when I remix something. -- Cedric Gervais
Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I think it'd be great if Prince made an album of just romantic, slow ballads. -- Moby
I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn. -- Sam Taylor-Wood
A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby! -- Walter Raleigh
You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna) -- Tamora Pierce
My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads. -- Pia Toscano
I would love to make an album full of ballads. For a listener, I want to have variety on there. -- Kristin Chenoweth
My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads. -- RuPaul
I have decided long ago that my songs and ballads would not get the hugs and kisses of the capitalistic experts. -- Woody Guthrie
Any curly-haired boy can write windswept ballads. You have to crush people's heads. That's the only way to make those fuckers listen. -- Don DeLillo
I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back? -- Christina Aguilera
If we hooked up, he could write me ballads and stuff. You gotta admit, nothing's sexier than a guy who writes music. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap. -- Thalia
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
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
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. -- Kenny Rogers
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!" -- Valerie June
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. -- Charlotte Gainsbourg
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. -- Josh Duhamel
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. -- Pia Toscano
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. -- Wallace Stegner
I grew up singing ballads, but what I really wanted to get into was the mainstream music on the radio because I really love the beats and everything. -- Jessica Sanchez
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. -- Alan Lomax
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. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
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. -- Stephen Holden
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? -- Laura Bell Bundy
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 your little acoustic guitar when you're a kid. -- Gloria Estefan
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? -- Valerie June
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. -- Kim Tae-yeon
I swear that woman had a previous career as a death-hunter selling tragic ballads down around the Seven Dials," said Will. "And I do wish she wouldn't sing about poisoning just after we've eaten. -- Cassandra Clare
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. -- Kelly Blatz

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