Top 158 Ballads Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
I am a balladeer. People fall in love to ballads, and that is what makes the world go round.
On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.
I also plan to release a ballads collection.
I would love to make an album full of ballads. For a listener, I want to have variety on there.
And when power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.
My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads.
I think it'd be great if Prince made an album of just romantic, slow ballads.
You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.
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.
At 16, I started really loving country music, and Collin Raye just had the most amazing ballads!
A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!
When we do R&B midtempos or ballads, there's an Underdogs sound.
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.
If we hooked up, he could write me ballads and stuff. You gotta admit, nothing's sexier than a guy who writes music.
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 that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.
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.
You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna)
I love ballads. I'm not into fast songs. I love to put my heart and all of my feelings into a song.
We had always put ballads on all of our albums.
Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.
My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads.
I'm a great lover of ballads.
You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
I think up until the 'Honestly' album it was very much label-company lead, of 'this is a sound that we need, this is what you need to do. You need to do ballads, you need to do a million different types of love songs,' and I hate ballads and I hate love songs.
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.
The worst thing for me when I go to a concert is a whole bunch of ballads. You get bored.
I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.
When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads
I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life I'd be Loretta Lynn.
I think ballads transcend better into my work when I remix something.
Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.
I was doing gigs at 16, belting out all the big ballads like Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey.
Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.
When power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.
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.
I've recorded in Portuguese, too. I didn't set out to just sing ballads or romantic songs.
I don't just do power ballads. I have a lot of up-tempo stuff, too - like 'Can't Fight the Moonlight.'
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!"
In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.
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.
I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.
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.
I dated someone in the '90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, 'That just sounds so heavy and hard.' But they have great ballads! Great ballads.
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.
I did Bronislaw Kaper's tune. He wrote "On Green Dolphin Street." I mean, I did all those ballads, all them ballads from South America. All those tunes - the guitar concerto on Sketches Of Spain. All those are Spanish melodies. Some of them we made up ourselves.
More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
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.
I love power ballads and the earnest lack of irony and emotion that exists in '80s music, along with synth guitars, of course.
True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature.
Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.
I have decided long ago that my songs and ballads would not get the hugs and kisses of the capitalistic experts.
George Benson conquered many different genres, from pop ballads to R&B to jazz.
I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.
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.
From all the years that I've been in the business, you know that ballads are what impact. Mid-tempos are great, you can sell some records on 'em, but when it comes down to it, ballads are the meat-and-potatoes on the album.
I do sing ballads, but I'm not a balladeer. I'm not the next Celine Dion.
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 have learned that Indonesians love ballads and I also like ST12 songs.
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.