Ballads Quotes - Page 5

• Everybody loves a sad ballad because it's cathartic. For artists, in a lot of ways, that's sort of our therapy sessions is when you're singing a song.

  Tim McGraw

  Song, Artist, Singing

  "Tim McGraw talks about faith, forgiveness and 'The Shack'". Interview With Angela Dawson, www.knoxnews.com. March 2, 2017.

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• 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.

  Miles Davis

  Mean, Guitar, America

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• Well first of all, I'm a singer. I sing since I talk. So the great ballad singers, the people that sang with so much feeling, jazz, blues, all those singers, they were songs that I listened to, records that my mom played for me, and then later I bought.

  Gloria Estefan

  Mom, Song, People

  "Singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. October 1, 2013.

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• I'm not somebody that has an encyclopedic knowledge of ballads and could sit around a fire and sing songs for three hours. I basically only know the songs that I've taken on and reworked and recorded.

  Sam Amidon

  Song, Taken, Fire

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Animal, Feminist, Desire

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• 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

  Simple, Opposites, Ideas

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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• For a while, it was something to try to push at people, playing old murder ballads and being upset about everything I was seeing around me. But now I feel a lot more at peace with it.

  Frank Fairfield

  People, Upset, Trying

  "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock, jazz. I was looking for more co-op type things than what I had been doing, which had been completely my own trip.

  Van Morrison

  Rocks, Play, People

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• The fact I wasn't getting off made me realize that I really had to take a hard look at it and at the type of music that I played, which ranges from ballads to country type stuff to rock and rhythm 'n' blues. It takes in a wider spectrum.

  Van Morrison

  Country, Rocks, Looks

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• The music I really like to get off on is the old rhythm 'n' blues and rock 'n' roll stuff... that's what I really dig. And I also dig to sing ballads as well. And I also dig writing my own songs. I was just trying to find a way of integrating the whole thing, taking a look at the total picture.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Writing, Rocks

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• I've become really interested in the landscape but not as landscape but more as it relates to mood and how we live and how the outside impacts on the inside. I didn't really look at the outside world during the years I was photographing the Ballad as I was locked inside my house and I lived totally inside.

  Nan Goldin

  Impact, Years, House

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• 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

  Kids, Two, Guitar

  "Singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan". The Travis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. September 27, 2011.

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• Lee Morgan used to stand behind me when I was playing a ballad and he'd be hollering, "Play the pretty notes, man, play the pretty notes." I thought I was playing the pretty notes, but you know, things like that help you to reach a little further.

  Gary Bartz

  Men, Play, Littles

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• I would start off with a lively rag, then would come a ballad, followed by a comedy song and a novelty number, and finally, the hot song. In this way, I left the stage with the audience laughing their heads off.

  Sophie Tucker

  Song, Numbers, Laughing

  SOPHIE TUCKER (1945). “Some of These Days: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SOPHIE TUCKER”

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• When power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.

  Jerry Cantrell

  Hair, Bigs, Big Hair

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• 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

  Song, Falling In Love, Years

  "How Sweet The Sound: An Interview With Joan Baez". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• It was very romantic. It's all in the song, The Ballad of John and Yoko. If you want to know how it happened, it's in there. Gibraltar was like a little sunny dream. I couldn't find a white suit -​ I had sort of off-white corduroy trousers and a white jacket. Yoko had all white on.

  John Lennon

  Dream, Song, White

  Jann Wenner, John Lennon (2001). “Lennon Remembers”, p.40, Verso

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• I like "God Give Me the Strength" very much. It's not really a blues and to call it a ballad is absurd. I don't know, its mid-tempo. Mark (St. John) actually wrote it and I think its very telling of our lives in the 60s. Its just a good song, ya know.

  Dick Taylor

  Song, Thinking, Giving

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• I sang my song called "In This Song." David Foster wrote the song for me. I thought that I should sing a ballad song.

  Charice Pempengco

  Song, Should

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• 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

  Song, Writing, Nashville

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• 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.

  Shane Filan

  Fashion, Song, One Direction

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• 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

  Song, Nice, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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

  Murder, Killing, Turns

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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

  Song, Rocks, Play

  "Crush of the Week: Kelly Blatz". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 9, 2010.

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• I think ballads transcend better into my work when I remix something.

  Cedric Gervais

  Thinking, Remix

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