Top 35 Ballad Quotes

‘The Ballad of Black Tom’ was written, in part, during the latest round of arguments about H. P. Lovecraft’s legacy as both a great writer and a prejudiced man. I grew up worshipping the guy, so this issue felt quite personal to me.

I have to think that ‘Nessa Dorma’ is the greatest rock ballad that’s never been recorded as such.

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.

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.

In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!

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.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

I love Stevie Wonder for his sense of rapture in the music. He can swing through a zappy tune, lift your heart, or drift into a sad ballad with consummate ease.

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.

Nothing Rhymed,’ my first single in England, was a nice ballad, which I thought would sound like a songwriter typical of the day – denim, jeans, long hair, early 20s.

In terms of content and instrumentation, I feel we have been extremely ambitious on every one of our albums going back to high school. We were the first screaming hardcore band to put a big ballad on our record.

The main thing for all of us was having a ballad, a slower song. Finally, they get to hear more of a vulnerable side to us! We didn’t really have that in ‘Reflection,’ and that’s something we all fought for.

My music is very diversified. I’ll have a rock song then I’ll do a ballad.

I was known as a ballad singer who sang melodramatic heavily produced ballads. I’m not known as a mid-tempo singer who does fun songs. I’m not going to do a song like ‘Dancing on the Ceiling.’

I mean, if you go to a rock gig and someone plays a ballad it can still really come across, even though there’s a hundred thousand people there.

We see many sides of her, beyond the ‘Ballad of Mulan.’ We see her as a human being, as a girl, as a young woman. Everybody admires her as a warrior but is there a fragile side to her? Will she sometimes hesitate or be afraid, but still choose to carry on? Yes, and we see that.

Like, it’s fun for me to sing ‘I Think We’re Alone Now.’ But when ‘Could’ve Been’ comes out as a single, that’s a ballad and really shows my voice; then people will say, ‘Hey, this girl really can sing.’

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.

In the car on my way to the studio, I was listening to ‘Where Are U Now’ with Justin Bieber and Jack U, so I was like, ‘Wow, this is such a banger.’ I loved the thought of having a ballad at the beginning and then just a massive drop.

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.

If I have the chance, I would like to write an emotional, sad ballad.

I can write a love song or a ballad, or when I read something and it pisses me off, I know how to go in.

None of my family had been entertainers. My Grandad liked to play ‘The Ballad of Davy Crockett’ on the comb and tissue paper every now and again but we never had Hughie Green knocking on the front door.

It’s the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful – and it’s all in the way you present it to the listener.

The new material includes a Latin-flavoured song, some electric rock songs, and a ballad. Something strikes me, and I follow that. I’m as excited now as I was when I was 15.

As a songwriter, I’ve got a lot of facets, so to speak. When you come to a live show, you get a better sense of that, because you’ll see me performing a piano ballad and some acoustic songs and some not acoustic songs, all in the same set.

Everyone in the group sang when I joined them. That was one of the problems with L.T.D.: there was no focal point. It took until 1976, or about six or seven years, before I was put into the spotlight as a vocalist. That’s when I recorded ‘Love Ballad,’ and it became a hit for the group.

We have dance songs and ballad songs, but Baekhyun’s voice plays a very important role. That’s a really important speciality of Baekhyun.

‘Turtle’ is one of our favorite ballad songs that we’ve written. It is very quiet but also so bright.

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.

I would say I am one of those people who just love to connect to people doing something I love. Can’t lie, love a ballad, so expect big, powerful, emotive stuff from me!

When I started writing material, I realised you could take a ballad like Usher’s ‘Nice and Slow,’ sing the same melody over a garage track, and everyone would be up and dancing.

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.

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.

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.’