Quotes and Sayings about Ballads
"I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance."
- Namie Amuro
(Related: Ballads)
"Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was always more inclined to listen to ballads."
- William Bell
(Related: Time, People, Ballads, Heroes)
"And when power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again."
- Jerry Cantrell
(Related: Power, Ballads, Hair)
"True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature."
- Francis James Child
(Related: Nature, Ballads, Popular)
"I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people."
- Joe Cocker
(Related: People, Ballads)
"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
(Related: People, Ballads, Song)
"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
(Related: Soul, Heart, Ballads, Moments)
"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
(Related: Ballads, Satire, Song)
"Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark."
- Brad Paisley
(Related: Ballads, Tongue)
"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
(Related: Money, Ballads, Now, Singing)
"In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Music, Ballads, Meaning, Words)
"My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads."
- Pia Toscano
(Related: Love, Music, Power, Ballads, Favorite)
"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
(Related: Ballads, Influence, Want)
"I also plan to release a ballads collection."
- Vinnie Vincent
(Related: Ballads)