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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. (Quote by - Alan Lomax)


Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark. (Quote by - Brad Paisley)


For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in. (Quote by - Samuel Lover)


I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance. (Quote by - Namie Amuro)


I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)


And when power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again. (Quote by - Jerry Cantrell)


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. (Quote by - Rita Coolidge)


I knew a very wise man that believed that . . . if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation. (2),(Quote by - Andrew Fletcher)


Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)


I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)


The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these. (Quote by - Charles Stuart Calverley)


True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature. (Quote by - Francis James Child)


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. (Quote by - Sammy Hagar)


In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them. (Quote by - Kate Smith)


A famous man is Robin Hood The English ballad-singer's joy. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)



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