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• It’s hard to pin down what makes Weiss’ music so distinctive. Perhaps it’s that even in the ballads, the tone is upbeat, the outlook positive. The way Weiss writes - passionately, wittily and with respect for his fellow musicians - attests to his talent and appetite for creativity, and suggests a long, enjoyable career.

  Carlo Wolff

  Writing, Creativity, Careers

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• I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie.

  William Shakespeare

  Poetry, Tree, Teeth

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Renaissance Acting Editions: The First Part of Henry the Fourth, with the Life and Death of HENRY Sirnamed HOT-SPURRE [King Henry IV, Part 1]”, p.147, Demitra Papadinis

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• I have decided long ago that my songs and ballads would not get the hugs and kisses of the capitalistic experts.

  Woody Guthrie

  Song, Kissing, Long Ago

  Woody Guthrie, Dave Marsh, Harold Leventhal (1990). “Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait”, HarperCollins Publishers

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

  Cedric Gervais

  Thinking, Remix

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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 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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• 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'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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• 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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