#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

#anything #ballad #ballads #feel #float

I've been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic works based on these things -- like George Macdonald's 19th century fairy stories, the fairy poetry of W.B. Yeats, and Sylvia Townsend Warner's splendid book The Kingdoms of Elfin. (I think that particular book of hers wasn't published until the 1970s, not long before her death, but she was an English writer popular in the middle decades of the 20th century.) I'm also a big Pre-Raphaelite fan, so I love William Morris' early fantasy novels. Oh, and "Lud-in-the-Mist" by Hope Mirrlees (Neil Gaiman is a big fan of that one too), and I could go on and on but I won't! ↗

— Terri Windling

#fairy-tales #folk-ballads #folklore #influences #pre-raphaelite

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them. ↗

— Kate Smith

#enhances #intensifies #meaning #mood #music

A lot of ballads are about the mistakes we inevitably make while trying to figure out how to live our lives. ↗

— Stephanie Kuehnert

#life #life

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

#gave #goosebumps #halen #heart #i

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. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#ballad #ballads #brian #down #every

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#even #i #most #remark #serious

I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing ofrags and patches, of ballads, songs and snatches. ↗

— Julian Sands

#i #patches #player #school #snatches