Ballads 1 Quotes

#1. The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

Alan Lomax

#2. Years ago, I wanted to be like the girl Ne-Yo. You know, with the mid-tempo ballads - I come from the Babyface era. But that's not trendy; that's not hip-hop.

Keri Hilson

#3. 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

#4. Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through, Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through. He'd lay in bed 'til the morning came, but the devil'd visit him just the same. Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through.

Jason Jack Miller

#5. 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

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

Miles Davis

#7. And when power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.

Jerry Cantrell

#8. 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

#9. But Christian ... he was unique, a rose blooming in a frozen tundra.
Had Christian been a woman, he might have married a king. As a man, he could have any woman's bed, or all of them.
He could inspire ballads. He could inspire wars.

Eli Easton

#10. In Poetry class, Professor Sappho teaches us how to compose love ballads. She's a swell teacher and all but I'm not sure I understand her. She's always going on and on about her weekend trips with the other goddesses to the island of Lesbos.

Tai

#11. Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time ... Ballads, polonaises, even a whole concerto may have been lost forever up your des durka, I can't tell you how many. I have been so deeply engulfed in my love for you I have hardly created anything.

Claude Debussy

#12. I don't just do power ballads. I have a lot of up-tempo stuff, too - like 'Can't Fight the Moonlight.'

Diane Warren

#13. 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.

Marty Robbins

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

Brad Paisley

#15. True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature.

Francis James Child

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

William Shakespeare

#17. A lot of ballads are about the mistakes we inevitably make while trying to figure out how to live our lives.

Stephanie Kuehnert

#18. I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.

Aaliyah

#19. We're all Hitler inside. We're all Christ inside. I'm not keen on the idea, but it's true, isn't it? We've all got a little bit of the devil in us.

Jason Jack Miller

#20. Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire to possess them. I guess I tend to read these stories as very early (and possibly unconscious) feminist texts.

Delia Sherman

#21. Music lets you write your own checks. Don't ever forget that.

Jason Jack Miller

#22. When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads

Miles Davis

#23. When we do R&B midtempos or ballads, there's an Underdogs sound.

Harvey Mason Jr.

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

Tamora Pierce

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

Kate Smith

#26. 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

#27. To me, ballads are special, because you can have a pop song that'll be know for three weeks and then you'll hear nothing else about it. Nobody else will record it and it'll just be gone. But if you do a good ballad, it'll be in the world forever.

Michael Jackson

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

Joe Cocker

#29. 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

#30. Beware of singing divine psalms for an ordinary recreation, as do men of impure spirits, who sing holy psalms intermingled with profane ballads: They are God's word: take them not in thy mouth in vain.

Lewis Bayly